NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



paddling the canoe began to drift down stream. 

 Just as they were opposite the cut-bank a rumble 

 and splash was heard behind them. Turning 

 quickly they saw a wave two to three feet high 

 going out from the shore they had left, where a 

 big cave-in had occurred outside the crack. By 

 a narrow margin they had escaped being buried 

 under the sand. 



With this incident serious difficulties of the 

 undertaking were over, and at six o'clock in the 

 evening they had brought the canoe and its lading 

 to the Ferry Camp. It had been a very arduous 

 and difficult undertaking, not devoid of danger, 

 but it had been crowned by success. In the 

 summer of 1928 with Stewart's help Belknap 

 brought the canoe back the seven odd miles to 

 Sand Lake in twenty-five minutes, though it had 

 taken a long hard day to bring it up and both 

 Belknap and Herz were as a result very tired. 



We of the trekking party had spent the night 

 trekking over the rocky walls of the fjord and 

 across the several sand flats. On the 13th most 

 of the party were at Camp 3 on the shore of Sand 

 Lake. About midnight we were awakened by two 

 rifle shots in quick succession followed by the 

 cries of some animal. The marauders that had 

 carried off the pemmican before our arrival at 



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