found a copper cylinder containing a long record left by Capt. Mares when on his way south in 1876. Upon the head of the barrel is carved "Alert" there were evidently two barrels, as one is entire and remains of another are scattered about the place. Will make further search tomorrow. Monday, April 2. Great luck in finding to-day the mail left by Eli Allen Young in Pandora. The sharp eye of Ed. Fish--a whale caught right of a few rods about fifteen feet west of cairn found by me yesterday, beneath which he found a can wrapped in sail cloth. This was so heavy that I surmised it might have been lying in water and contents were now a bale of ice. Sending boys back to camp I climbed to cairn two feet high, which Mares speaks of in