those provided by the little four //128 or boat We were up before the next morning anxiously re- garding the weather brought up from the States and to get started for the South since every hour's delay now added to the danger of our being caught in the ice and forced to spend the long winter in the Arctic. The gale, hovever, still continued with practically unabated force and it soon became evident that we could not land all the supplies that had been brought up from the States for the use of the Expedition, without dangerously delaying our start for the South. It was already past the middle of Septem- ber and every hour's detention