Struck Disco Sound and farther north took the edge off these first impressions. Sunday afternoon at six o'clock we cast anchor off the fishing village # Battle Harbor, having used up six days in making a trip that should have been accomplished in three and one-half days at most. Monday was spent by the Captain Pickels and the engineers in the primitive blacksmith shop of the little fishing hamlet improvising as best they could a yoke of oak and iron to prevent the fly wheel from going to pieces in service, tools and materials for making better repairs being lacking. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon we got under way again for the north. Right here is where like a great mistake was made, which cost dearly to all con- cerned. The relief expedition in the "George B. Cluett" should have been abandoned as being inadvisable, but Captain Pickels said that the engine would run all right when needed and the vessel could make the trip successfully, Captain Corner, ar- guing from his own extensive experience in sailing vessels without auxiliary power, said that the schoo- er ought to be competent for the voyage and I was anxious to deliver to Mr. MacMillan the supplies which he was supposed to be in absolute [to bring back to civilization the returning members of the C.S.R. Staff and