More than a year has passed since the incidents occurred which are the subject of this article. During that time much of the detail has faded from my memory, the impressions have become blurred, and the ideas which then formed themselves in my mind are now forgotten. Yet it may be that a few notes on that time spent on the Greenland ice-cap will be of some use to travellers who, in the future, may be faced with a similar problem. If, by these notes, I can do something to dispel the strange ideas of danger and risk in leaving a man in such a situation, I shall feel justified. There are many men, trappers and the like, who live by themselves for most of the year. An accident is very rare among these men, nor are their minds usually deranged.

The Royal Research Ship William Scoresby left England in November 1930 and returned to Falmouth on June 1, 1932. On this, her third commission, she carried out successfully three items of work on the Discovery Committee's programme: surveys of the southern whaling grounds, of the Humboldt Current, and of the Falkland Islands fishery grounds. Her total complement of twenty-one included two scientific and five other officers and on recent cruises she has worked 351 stations. Mr E. R. Gunther was in charge of the scientific work, with Commander T. A. Jolliffe, R.N. (Ret.), in executive command.

We are indebted to Captain H. K. Salvesen for news of the whaling activities down south during the season of 1931–32.