On this march we crossed seven leads, which, with the repeated faulting of the trail, lengthened our march once more to eighteen hours.

Sunday, April 18, found us still hurrying along over the trail made by Marvin and Bartlett.

They had lost the main trail, but this made little difference to us except as to time.

We were able to make longer marches when on the main trail because there we camped in the igloos already built on the upward journey instead of having to build fresh ones for ourselves.

This was another eighteen-hour march.