expressly intended for combat. [illegible] ting the ice which a vessel, and particularly a sailing vessel, should have in order to meet the emergen- cies that are more than liable to arise in the course of a voyage into the Far North. To add to our difficulties, it was not safe to try to arm the engine in its disabled and poorly repaired con- dition on kerosene and we had on board less than eight barrels of gasoline when we left Sydney. This meagre supply of fuel had been sadly depleted by the incursions made upon it between [illegible] Sydney and Battle Harbor, at Disko Island and at Upernivik, so that it had to be carefully con- served crossing Melville Bay for