Had there been as much ice in 178 Melville Bay in 1897 as there was in 1915 the Admiral could not have secured his prize when he did. Nine days more were required to tra- verse the eighty miles remaining to We reached turned Cape Athol, where when toward North Star, Bay about 6 o'clock in the morning of 12 September. Then the breeze that we light had been profiting by for half the night died out entirely and we were drifting about in the strait between Cape Athol and Wostenholm Island. At 9 o'clock our eyes were gladdened by the sight of two boats making through the ice floes lying between us and North Star Bay. One of them was a motor boat and we thought at first that it might be the "George Borup" or Crocker Land