the marks of ruins which we left. The whole place is covered with hair. Sticking in the side of the igloo were seventeen little sticks and by the door four more, Van says that means Arblis and E-tools also killed seventeen hare! This must be the original cause of the Arctic scare. Evidently the boys killed as much hares as they have gone on to "Three Bear Camp", which I told them to do. The thermometer records the extraordinary temperature of +24°. We are sitting in the igloo in our underclothes as if it were summer. This morning it was 5° below zero, now snowing and wind S.E. 3. lest I forget let me record what we have eaten, about two hours before we reached here we each had a quarter of a pound of jammeer and an equal amount of crackers. Then we came out