THE ICE-CAP AND BACK 



mos to go to Camp Lloyd and start in to help pack 

 us out on the 25th. Belknap and Herz returning 

 from setting up another bamboo pole tonight re- 

 port that the conditions of ice ahead are still no 

 better. Belknap's crampons and mine have now 

 both broken and as we have crepe-bottomed boots 

 which slip on wet ice we are in a serious difficulty. 



An apparent dissolving of the clouds as they 

 move in from the west toward the glacier and there 

 meet the outblowing winds, we have noticed fre- 

 quently and it appears to be a characteristic of the 

 margin to the ice-cap. 



The next day, the 23rd, we made a better ad- 

 vance, though we climbed only 80 feet. We set 

 up camp number three on the ice. Today our 

 hodometer, which is made from a bicycle wheel, 

 broke and became useless. We recalled now that 

 remark of Colonel J. P. Koch that the chief ad- 

 vantage in having a hodometer is to keep up the 

 morale of the party. On the 22nd we had found 

 that we were all suffering from under-nourishment 

 and so I decided to issue two cans of pemmican 

 for the party both morning and evening and one 

 can at noon. Belknap set up a third bamboo upon 

 an ice pinnacle. We decided to go forward one 

 more trek, leaving the sled behind us, camp, set 

 up bamboos, put up pilot balloons, and the next 



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