increased in geometrical [1/29] progression the liability that we might get caught by the ice and forced to spend the long winter in the Arctic. How I mourned the defects of the "Cluetto" engine! Conditions at Etah, howerver, did not prove to be so serious as I had expected to find them. Strict conservation of resources had been inaugurat- ed early in 1915 and a careful inventory had been made in [the] fall after the hope of a ship had been given up which showed that the supplies which had been furnished on a liberal scale for three years, with margin enough for even a fourth year emergency, would really be adequate for the coming year for [all essentials]