NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



back of the neck. Immediately his hind flippers 

 came to the surface as he sank in deep water, the 

 surface surtinged with blood. It was impossible to 

 secure him though Abraham returned to the place 

 in his kayak when the tide ebbed. 



It was well understood by all of us that our 

 station on Mount Evans would sooner or later be 

 subjected to winds of hurricane force blowing off 

 the ice-cap from the southeasterly quarter, and 

 the form of the hut had therefore been made such 

 as to resist these winds. On either side of the main 

 central room there were low storehouses sufficiently 

 high for one to stand in them on the inner side, 

 but with roof sloping away to a low wall on the 

 outer side. This wall was built up of boulders 

 and was banked up outside by tundra mat mixed 

 with boulders. 



The labor on the hut stretched out over the 

 greater part of the summer season — nearly six 

 weeks in all, though time was found for several 

 reconnaissances up the fjord to the inland-ice or 

 across the fjord to Nakajanga. 



Our most serious problem in connection with the 

 hut on the summit was to carry up the Delco 

 generator, which weighed almost 300 pounds, and 

 the three "iron-clad" storage batteries each of 

 which weighed about 240 pounds. The problem 



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