In view of his tragic end, in the spring of 1909, the farthest north of all deaths known to man, this visit of Marvin's to the neighborhood of Petersen's grave has a peculiar pathos.
The _Roosevelt_ cairn, erected by Marvin in 1906, is directly abreast of the ship's location at Cape Sheridan in 1905-06 and about one mile inland.

It is on a high point of land, about four hundred feet above the water.

The record is in a prune can, at the bottom of the pile of stones, and was written by Marvin himself in lead-pencil.

The cairn is surmounted by a cross, made of the oak plank from our sledge runners.

It faces north, and at the intersection of the upright and the crosspiece there is a large "R" cut in the wood.