THE RETURN ON FORCED MARCHES 



Cooley and start out the next morning with much 

 lighter loads. 



Abraham's hunting has yielded no large game 

 but only a single small ptarmigan. If we could 

 now secure a good sized caribou the situation would 

 be relieved at once. Fuel is very scarce and we 

 now begin the regular use of the primus lamp. 



The twenty-mile wind off the ice during the day 

 had not been cold, quite the contrary. The tem- 

 perature of the air as determined by the swung 

 thermometer was 52 °F. This is the well-known 

 warm foehn effect of down-slope winds wherever 

 found, and the Greenland type of foehn cloud had 

 been in view in its dark mushroom shapes over the 

 ice to the southwest. One good effect of this wind 

 has been to blow away the black flies which had 

 disappeared temporarily from Camp Cooley. 



This morning a fat Arctic hare hopped right into 

 our camp and was shot by Abraham. While his 

 body was still warm he was dropped into the pot 

 and soon afterward devoured by our hungry re- 

 tainers. 



The next morning we made a fresh start and 

 entered the ice-cap from a new position farther up 

 the glacier. As the wind had now died down con- 

 siderably we made much better progress and ad- 

 vanced sufficiently to carry out our pilot balloon 



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