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Sunday. Oct 22.

Morton reports the huts as about
sixty five miles of march from the brig.
Their route was by the old track to Anatok
and thence by mingled ice foot and
young floe, as far as Cape Hatherton
Refuge Inlet (Fog Inlet) presented a remarka
-ble sight. A broken mass of this fall
and last spring ice, extended from its
inner sides out to seaward to the open
water, a most imposing spectacle for it
seemed as if some force had tilted the
tables in a same angle of inclination each
table being a rhomboid not greater than
ten yards in its longest diameter. This
area was impenetrable, a series of entries,
re entering in distant perspective
each lined by ice spires from 8 to 20 feet
high, hid horizon from the tenants of
the sledge and so confunded the dogs
that it was impossible to retain the
points of the compass. This ice was
doubled, Morton went out to seaward
until he reached the Polynia and
then committing himself to the flat recently
frozen ice, made the passage in
safety.

From Cape Hatherton they went
to the cache as ordered but to my sor-
row found evidences of bad faith on
the part of the party abandoning the
Expedition. These misguided men
had not respected my injunctions
as to the property at the boat. In
the teeth of a written order, they
carried off our scanty stock of needles
matches, thread &c. All our sugar
nearly all our rice and worse that
all this the sole remaining remnant
of Liquor Some ten gallons which