CHAPTER XV 



ON THE ICE-CAP AND BACK TO CAMP LLOYD 



'HE 19th of August we found our- 

 selves encamped beside a small 

 lake at the very edge of the ice- 

 cap, engaged in loading our sled 

 for the ice-cap journey. It did 

 not take us long to discover that we had loaded the 

 sled much too heavily to be drawn by four men on 

 such a surface as we found everywhere about us. 

 As a matter of fact there are but three men to 

 pull in harness since Herz must balance the sled 

 with the gee pole. So after a short haul we take 

 off the sled our heavy sleeping robes, the tent, 

 and the pack sacks filled with provisions; these 

 Church and I now carry forward on our backs 

 while Belknap and Herz manipulate the sled with 

 the residue of the load. The ice is here so rough 



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