NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



We had hoped that time would permit of an at- 

 tempt to sound the ice to determine its depth by 

 echo methods, and for this purpose we had brought 

 with us an expensive and heavy geophone kindly 

 loaned the expedition by Dr. DeGollyer of New 

 York City. The dynamite, fuses and fulminating 

 caps necessary for the sounding experiment we 

 had obtained in Sweden and had brought aboard 

 the Disko off Helsingor. These explosives had 

 been brought to Camp Lloyd and stored under an 

 overhanging rock away from the camp itself. It 

 was a great disappointment not to be able to carry 

 out these studies, but so much time had been de- 

 voted to building the observatory that in the limited 

 time remaining and with the great difficulties 

 in the way of transporting our equipment to the 

 ice front, it was clear that this part of our program 

 would have to be abandoned for the present at 

 least. It was even doubtful if time would suffice 

 for laying out our base line and locating bamboo 

 signals from it. As a matter of fact this part of 

 the program was only partially completed. 



The first stage in the transportation of our 

 equipment consisted in taking it as far as the Dory 

 Landing about three miles up the fjord from Camp 

 Lloyd. The landing could be made with the dory 

 only at or near flood tide and was much easier 



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