therefore landed our outfit and deer put the cause. After dinner having made ready I started to walk it J ust Simpson accompanied by "Coney" The Dalian. We carried our beds and some food as we shall be obliged to camp at least once. Tank the walking fair, sometimes on this beach and some times on the ice close to 8.Lon. I walked steadily until night fall and thus Campet in a spruce grove The snow ceased falling in the afternoon but at night it still looks Threlding The same continues full of ice and slush, Our camp is a short distance below some Indian houses 10.25 miles below It.Sompo. Sunday Oct 18 about 4 o'clock I started early and after going a few miles passed some half dozen Indian houses on the opposite bank. The gave us a salute and I shouted in answer and kept on our course. The walking was good during most of the frommon, but in the afternoon in panes long stretches of slippery boulders where the snow had drifted and filled up all the interstices into which our feet plunged at every step. My main good progress considering the walking act at nightface went into Camps on the side of the sleeping bank. Came about 15 miles Monday Deb 19 Rept on up to Simpson river The walking was switched and we could not make very fast time but we made about 15 miles Camping just above Martin River. Made about 15 miles