her mission satisfactorily and [85] would not have been obliged to winter in the Arctic. As I have said, the weather was superb and the North Water was free from impeding ice, when the "Ingerlis" left the "Cruett" for the run to Etah. The trip would have been most enjoyable, had I not been so anxious about the success of the whole enterprise. Wostenholme Island, whose outer shore we skirted, is a bold composed mass of the most ancient granite and gneisses against which lie the edges of red and white beds of sandstone, geologically more recent, both rocks presenting high steep cliffs to the water. Near the nor. thern side of Wostenholme Island Named for Sir John Wostenholme who helped fit out Hendrick Hudson in 1610