the wind blow or not. On board the only place provided for melting is a boiler on the cooking range in the forepeak. This boiler is not large e- to provide ough for the quantity of water required for the proper daily needs of the sixteen men now on board and it is supp- plemented nearly every day by ice melt- ed in the cabin in makeshift recep- tacles fashioned from the gasoline 5-gallon cans brought down from Etah. Incidentally, these cans were being thrown overboard as fast as their contents were one day soon after we left North Star Bay emptied into the vessel's tanks and were saved only after I had protested against their waste. They have been used for many purposes since, the most important of which is this last, for melting ice. The melting is done partly on the cabin stove, but most- ly over one of the primus stoves for- tunately furnished me by Peter.