Repeatedly we passed fresh tracks of bear and hare, together with numerous fox tracks.

Save for these, the march was uneventful, with the exception of two narrow leads which we crossed over thin young ice.

All that day the sun was hot and blinding to an almost intolerable degree.

It would have been practically impossible to travel with the sun in our faces, so fierce were its rays.
Yet all this day the temperature ranged between 18 deg.

and 30 deg.