late last evening learned that the old man had engaged two men to take me over to Sarkasak in spite of the strenuous effort that I had made to make him understand that I had already engaged two of my Herasare men for the job. This morning I found that all three of my men loading their Kahmowtiks for the trip, apparently another of the old man's mistakes, but I laid off Ole and took only Johan and Hans. Mr. Flich er had told me that the route over the sea ice to Sarkasak was fine and that I could easily make the trip in two hours. but we took to the land at the little settlement just before reaching the turning point of the mainland and kept to it for about two hours before we could use the service again, a path that had evidently been followed for many days. The descent to the sea ice was exciting enough over some very steep slopes. As we ap- proached Sarkasak we crossed several leads, one of which was falling three feet across. The dog jumped well and dragged the Kahmowtike over with a bound, the rear ends of its runners striking the water. At another place we traversed several loose cakes of ice -