It involved, of course, as does any journey in those waters, even under favorable conditions, unceasing watchfulness and skill in ice navigation, but the trip was without pronounced adventure.

On August 8 the _Roosevelt_ emerged from the ice and passed Cape Sabine, and the value of experience and the new departure of forcing the ship down the center of the channel instead of along shore will be appreciated from the fact that we were now thirty-nine days ahead of our 1906 record on the occasion of our previous return from Cape Sheridan, although we had left Cape Sheridan considerably later than before.

The voyage from Cape Sheridan to Cape Sabine had been made in fifty-three days, less time than in 1906.
We stopped at Cape Saumarez, the Nerke of the Eskimos, and a boat's crew went ashore.

It was there I first heard of the movements of Dr.
Frederick Cook during the previous year while absent from Anoratok.

We arrived at Etah on the 17th of August.