1914] WORK AT BORUP LODGE 109 



work during the summer must be subordinate to the 

 all-important task of meat getting. 



We depended for our coats, boots, and mittens upon 

 seals secured upon the ice in May by creeping behind 

 a white sail fastened to a small sledge; during the sum- 

 mer they are shot with the rifle from the kayak. 



We kept careful watch day and night over our house 

 and equipment, and our meteorological observations 

 went on without interruption. Both Doctor Hunt and 

 Small were keen hunters. The former supplied our 

 table with seal meat, and the latter with eider duck, 

 black guillemot, and murre, many of which were pre- 

 pared as specimen skins for the American Museum. 

 On the 20th of June Hunt surprised and pleased us all 

 by appearing at midnight with the hindquarters of a 

 caribou around his neck. He had beaten the Eskimos 

 at their own game; no one had secured a caribou at 

 Etah for years. 



Jerome Allen deserves the very highest praise for 

 his indefatigable efforts to establish communications 

 with home through his wireless apparatus. He was by 

 far the hardest worker of the expedition from the time 

 that he landed upon the beach until I bade him good- 

 by two years later. Handicapped by a constitution 

 which failed him repeatedly, he was ever enthusiastic, 

 and did not give up hope until every expedient had been 

 tested which he could devise with the material available. 

 Within twenty-one days after our floor timbers were in 

 place he had assembled his engine, wired the switch- 

 board, storage batteries, and house, and had snapped 

 the button — presto! the house was flooded with electric 

 lights! Under his direction, with the help of the boys, 

 wires were strung from the top of the hill in the rear of 



