THE EXPEDITION BASE 



was finally solved by putting one of these heavy 

 bodies on the sledge beneath which in a central 

 position we had attached as a wheel the cast-iron 

 reel of our captive balloon. To balance the vehicle 

 a gee pole was used. With ten men harnessed in 

 as draft animals and with Herz balancing the load 

 and steering with the gee pole, we were able to 

 make the summit in about six hours. Although 

 most of us were already hardened by packing, 

 the work was very strenuous and one trip each day 

 with frequent rests was all that we were able to 

 manage. 



Our wireless plant we at first set up in the old 

 storehouse at Camp Lloyd, since the Reinartz 

 topographic requirement was there fulfilled that 

 no land shall rise so near the station as to make 

 the vertical angle greater than eighteen degrees. 

 Though reception at the station was satisfactory 

 enough, Oscanyan did not succeed in sending 

 satisfactorily. 



The thought had been often in my mind that a 

 wind of hurricane force might visit us while we were 

 building the hut and before it was sufficiently secure 

 to hold. On the fifteenth with the frame already 

 up a rather high wind which Kallquist estimated 

 to have a force of about 45 miles per hour, nearly 

 carried away the tent which Herz and Kallquist 



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