25' TO 89 deg.
57', SHOWING ALCOHOL STOVES IN SNOW SHELTER Left to Right: Henson, Egingwah, Ootah, Seegloo, Ooqueah] Take a regiment, for instance.

The regiment could not make as good an average daily march for a number of forced marches as could a picked company of that regiment.

The picked company could not make as good an average march for a number of forced marches as could a picked file of men from that particular company; and this file could not make the same average for a certain number of forced marches that the fastest traveler in the whole regiment could make.
So that, with my party reduced to five picked men, every man, dog, and sledge under my individual eye, myself in the lead, and all recognizing that the moment had now come to let ourselves out for all there was in us, we naturally bettered our previous speed.
When Bartlett left us the sledges had been practically rebuilt, all the best dogs were in our pack, and we all understood that we must attain our object and get back as quickly as we possibly could.

The weather was in our favor.

The average march for the whole journey from the land to the Pole was over fifteen miles.