Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

Without their Rushton canoe, Cary and Cole were forced to hike out of the interior, following the Grand River. Traveling by foot slowed their progress considerably.

The Julia A. Decker was scheduled to leave Labrador on Wednesday, September 2, with or without Austin Cary and Dennis Cole.

The main party, waiting in Rigolette (now Rigolet) in the Hamilton Inlet region near Eskimo Island, grew increasingly anxious about the absence of their friends.

Finally, on the afternoon of September 1, Cary and Cole were spotted in a boat belonging to a local resident, rowing out to meet the Julia A. Decker.

Everyone on the ship cheered the return of the two men and the successful discovery of the Grand Falls.