NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



As a rain now threatened we made haste to get 

 our several piles of material under cover, using tar- 

 paulins and also the sides and roof of the store- 

 house which we had brought from the camp on the 

 Maligiakf jord. The old riding sail which had been 

 given us by Captain Bartlett, and which had served 

 as shelter at the camp of 1926, we now cut up for 

 a wall tent twelve feet by twelve. Our Eskimos, 

 Abraham and Nathaniel, were set to work to sew 

 the pieces together and the tent when ready was set 

 up on a flat ridge of rock to serve as a store and 

 dining tent. Supplies were piled inside against 

 the back and walls to stiffen the structure, and in 

 front of them the provision boxes in regular use 

 were opened up and placed on their sides so as to 

 serve as shelves. In front of these were placed 

 the chests or lockers with lids, and these served as 

 seats about the folding table in the center. 



At the back of this tent to serve as cupboards 

 we had brought several of the chests designed by 

 Major Fiala on his Arctic Expeditions. These 

 were stout packing boxes eighteen inches by 

 twenty-four and provided with rope handles at the 

 ends. They had hinged lids and within the cases 

 on either side double cleats for shelving. We im- 

 proved them slightly by adding stout cleats on 

 one end outside so that they stood firmly on end 



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