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could not load a rifle.

[Margin] Monday
June 26

This evening at 6 1/2 o'clock, the East
Greenland party under McGeary returned
all doing well.

They found the coast of Greenland
to head N. 70. E - from Cape Frederick to
the face of the glacier. This result coincides
with my own observations. The coast of
Greenland therefore runs rapidly toward
the East and is arrested by this enormous
protrusion of ice. The trend ^ reduced to [mannus bim?]
was E. by N. 3/4 [?] ^ or nearly due E & West ^ a course which allow=
ing Greenland to expand at the same
rate on the Atlantic coast would have
brought us to the point of intersection in
300 geog. miles. The time occupied
by this Expedition was but 21 days - the
total distance traversed 278 miles.

The caches were destroyed by bears
and as I anticipated from the fate of the
provisions within my own line of operation
not a morsel of Pemican remained ex=
cept the tin cases made at my instance
by Borden - these being I think iron
cylindrical with cone shaped ens the
teeth and claws of the animal could
make little impression. Pemican should
always be in metal or air tight skin cases
as the fat will exude at ordinary Arctic
summer temperatures and thus ruin the
quality of the food.

The power of the bear as seen in
the destruction of our depos must be enor=
=mous. An alcohol keg - strongly iron bound
was dashed to pieces that not a fragment
remained. A tin can of liquor was mashed
into a hard solid and the claws had