IN CAMP ON THE MALIGIAKFJORD 



rissey carried supplies for the Eskimo station of 

 Dr. Rasmussen at North Star Bay. In order to 

 find place for everything the stores of the two ex- 

 peditions could not be kept entirely separate, for 

 economy of storage made size and shape of individ- 

 ual boxes rather than their content the determining 

 factor in their distribution on board. Our sacks 

 of sugar got packed near the gasoline engine and 

 were in part impregnated with so much motor 

 gasoline that even our Eskimo helpers refused to 

 eat it. We made, however, hurried journeys 

 through the ship and could only hope that no very 

 important articles had been left on board. 



And now the time had arrived to say good-bye 

 to our shipmates of the Putnam expedition and to 

 hope that a kind Fate would bring us all together 

 again in September for the return voyage to Nova 

 Scotia. Our stores have been hastily dumped on 

 shore above the high tide level in a confusion 

 which suggested the salvaged wreckage from a 

 sinking vessel. On this pile of lumber, casks, cases 

 and rolls we perched ourselves and watched the 

 beautiful lines of the Morrissey as her anchor was 

 weighed and she disappeared into the Ikertok- 

 fjord behind the headland. 



The last forty-eight hours have been hectic ones 

 and without sleep for some of us, but the weather 



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