SECOND EXPEDITION TO THE ICE-CAP 



States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Our traveling 

 equipment for the ice-cap consisted of an Alaskan 

 sled with hodometer, a four-man tent with two 

 poles, our Woods Arctic sleeping robes with four 

 reindeer skins for carpet, four ice axes, bamboo 

 poles, 100 feet of climbing rope, climbing irons, 

 ice chisel and hammer, primus lamp with ten gal- 

 lons of kerosene fuel, cooking pail, cups and 

 spoons. 



The scientific equipment for the ice-cap in- 

 cluded a thirty-second transit, hydrogen generator 

 with calcium hydride, folding canvas water bucket, 

 and a supply of balloons, small pyrhelometer, alti- 

 meter, aneroid, compass, hand anemometer, psy- 

 chrometer, ice thermometers, cameras and moving 

 picture apparatus with a supply of films. We took 

 along also a few necessary medicines, but especially 

 holocane for treatment of the eyes in the event of 

 snow-blindness, and all in the party were supplied 

 with snow spectacles. 



Our provisions consisted of one hundred pounds 

 of Armour's Pemmican, twenty-five pounds of 

 Pilot Bread, one hundred cakes of Peter's Gala 

 chocolate, a supply of Knorr's erbswurst, tea, sugar 

 and powdered milk (klim). These provisions were 

 for the entire expedition and not for the ice-cap 

 portion alone. 



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