(101) struggling through the hoodmud of Melville Bay would have been worse, had I undertaken the same distance in it at one time. We were about two hours on service to foot of land trail, seven hours coming etc. back, and an hour in reaching Kelataki after resting for a brief hour on receiving service -- but one half-hour without al- lowing anything for steps. The night was cloudless and beautiful though rather cold - at 6:10 p. (14 mi in 2 hrs) Leaving sea ice we ascended narrow gorge called Eleven for about three miles then turned sharp ly to west and went up long steep slope that I should have thought to be too steep to be our route -- But I left on the sledge except for last 20 feet of the climb for nice - I began to see why the men wanted two kah- sneekets for my baggage, little as it is. Top of this slope seemed to be about 1000 ft above the sea. The sledge reached at 11 p. m. Then route for more than an hour was fairly good till we got to the base of the great precipitous talus slopes of Major Karensatsiak rising about 1500 feet above us (3160 ft). We were at the head of a great valley leading to the west, which I thought might be our route but it was nil, for we turned southeast hard and began on a two-mile stretch along up the snow-covered talus