464 4 to a litter of pups on the ice beside the 9 Roasted polar bear meat ship this evening. at dinner - excellent. This evening I have been going thro' my log book studying our daily runs and I make out that if we had had a competent engineer, plenty of fuel and supplies for the engine and en- ergry on the part of the captain to push the machinery for all it was worth as he should have done, the "Chett" would have reached Uper- vivik Disko by the night of 30 July or morning of 31 July; Upernivik on 2 August; Devils Thumb on 3 August; Cape York on 13 August; North Star Bay on 14 August; Etah on 16 August. Allowing 9 days for delays by ice, addi- tional to what I have already allowed, Etah would have been reached by 25 August. We could not have been detained there more than a few days, say one week. We should