able Mr MacMillan to spend (6 an additional year in the Arctic according to his expressed desire, sundry boxes sent to the various members of the staff by their friends in America, Captain Comer and I and our baggage were gotten on board, some repairs were effected to the vessel, a new crew was installed and, at six o'clock beautiful in the afternoon of Monday the nineteenth, lines were cast off from the Ingraham wharf, the motor was started up and we got under weigh for the Far North, full of anticipations of an agreeable and interesting voyage to a rarely visited portion of the globe and a safe return to civilization and home in the early