(Quest voyage, continued) 170 It took us eight days to make our way with and through the ice along the Crimson Cliffs, past Parker Snow Bay and the Great Petawik Glacier be- tween Cape York and Cape Athol, my fifty miles, where the turn is made in- to North Star Bay. In spite of our distress over the currently recurring delays, the journey across Melville Bay was not without interest and incident. When we fairly got into the pack and had need of tools with which to con- tend with the ice it developed that the vessel had on board no ice anchors, no pushing poles, only one long boat hook, no ice-saws, no pickaxes, no ice-axes, no ice chisels, no dyna- mite, in fact we had nothing.