I was glad enough to stretch out for a time on some skins after the night's experience, since this was my first long kahmootik ride after coming back from Cape York six months before. About eight o'clock we got under way again for the ten-mile stretch still before us. The snow was gone from the valley for the most part, but here and there a patch helped us on our way though the dogs made good progress over moss and grass and even among stones, so that Rasmussen's promise that I might sit on the kahmootik from one end of the journey to the other was fulfilled. About ten o'clock we made our way across the bordering loose cakes of ice into the still firm ice of North Star Bay and a few minutes later were welcomed by Mr Ekelaw and Dr Hunt at the Headquarters of the southern substation of the Crocker Land Expedition. The change to North Star Bay was an agreeable and beneficial, and the time passed pleasantly and rapidly, especially at first before we began to complain about the arrival of the new relief ship. The weather was good and interesting, excursions in all directions were made on foot, by canoe and in the motorboat