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2. From Ten mile Ravine to Basalt Camp 6. m

3. From B. Camp to Helen River 10.
(bottom of Bedevilled Reach)

4. Helen River to Devil's Jaws 9
(off Godsend Id inshore side)

5. Godsend Id to Anaotok. 4

Total travel 39

Anaotok to First Hummock Pass]3

Hummack Pass to Old ice South 7.
Old ice & young to Second Pass 22
Across Second H. Pass to S. end of Littleton Id 8
S. End of Littleton to Point Salvation 2
Point Salvation to Esquimaux Huts 12
54

Total in miles 83
Temp = about -45°
Range of same -40 to -60°

Resources. Five nearly starved dogs. Hans
and Dr Kane. a light sledge
and outfit.

Outfit

To encounter broken ice in the midst of
darkness and at a temperature destructive
to life, every thing depends upon your
sledge. Should it break down, you might as well break your own leg, there is
no hope for you. Our sledge is made of well tried
oak, dove tailed into a runner shod
with iron. No iron except [save] the screws and
[riots?] which confine the sledge to its runners
is used besides [throughout the structure]. In [such] this
intense cold, iron snaps like glass and
no immoveable or rigidly fastened woodwork
would stand for a moment the fierce
concussions of an arctic drive. Every
thing is put together with lashings of
seal skin, [tied securely in its place]
and the whole fabric - seemingly a