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than his re-enacting of this ancient practice.
I scratched a rough "P" on the surface of the metal, as an
indisputable proof of my discovery; built a catrnnnearbbyiin
which I placed a brief record; then after a last look at the
celestial straggler, descended to my sledge, without making any
attempt to get at the smaller aerolite (the dog) which layy
a
short distance lower down the slope ,beneath the huge drift
that filled the valley.
Some two weeks later I was back again at the Lodge, after
a most arduous journey, much of which had been overland, owing
to the early breaking up of the Smith Sound ice.
In the latter part of August of the same year I at- I
tempted in the "Falcon" to penetrate Melville Bay to the site
of the Aerolites, and embark them for the purpose of sending
them home. The summer of'94 however, was an unusually severe
one in this portion of the Arctic regions, and the ice of Mel-
ville Bay did not move out at all, but remained cemented to
the shore throughout the entire season, rendering it impossible
for me to get my ship within thirty or forty miles of the ae-
rolites.
In December of the same year (the midnight of the Arctic
winter night), I made a second attempt to revisit the aerolites
but bad weather combined with the darkness to close the ever
inhospitable door of Melville Bay to me, and I was unable to get
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