of undesirable inhabitants while they were frozen. Ekblaw returned to me all the things which I had given to him when I started southward and I gave some of them back to him again. I now have to face a certainty of about eight months more up here and we must hus- tand our resources carefully to provide as well as we can against the possi- bility of another year in the north beyond that. Heavens! Ekblaw, I am thank- ful to say, is insistent upon such conservation. Dr. Hunt has not re- turned yet from his response to the call from the north, but EK feels sure that it is not wise for me to go to Uma- nakka before the last of April or the first of May. Hunt too is a conservationist. If my party made fair time, and it seems reasonable to suppose that they did because the weather apparently has been favorable, they are now (9:30 p.m.) at Cape Seddon and