NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



stretched in an east and west direction and about 

 six miles in length which I named Lake Marvin 

 after the Chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau. Con- 

 tinuing now eastward I reached another crest and 

 could see in a direction about north thirty-five de- 

 grees east the long line of nunataks or rocky reefs 

 surrounded by ice which lie to the southward of 

 Camp Cooley. 



Descending now the slope of this ridge I was 

 hailed by Enok, who brought a note from Belknap 

 with the good news that the long lost depot of 

 provisions had been found. We had begun to fear 

 that this cache would escape our observation and 

 we were much cheered by the discovery. The 

 depot was hidden under a bank of the river near 

 the upper rapids and contained two hundred 

 pounds of Armour's pemmican, twenty-five pounds 

 of sugar and over fifty pounds of other pro- 

 visions, ten gallons of kerosene, eleven eighteen- 

 foot bamboo poles, matches, etc. Everything ex- 

 cept the onions and some desiccated eggs ap- 

 peared to have stood the winter without injury. 



We now made a cache of these supplies at our 

 Sand Lake Camp, protecting them in heavy duffle 

 bags from the depredations of the foxes, and after 

 Belknap and I had caught two hours of sleep we 

 started back to Camp Lloyd in the night to avoid 



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