NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



cerned I had been made the leader because of my 

 experience in Arctic travel. The scientific work 

 was divided with Dr. Church in such manner that 

 he made his evaporation studies and a snow sur- 

 vey by use of the well-known methods devised by 

 him, while I took charge of the purely meteoro- 

 logical studies and temperature measurements in 

 the snow and within the ice crevasses. It actually 

 turned out that I also shared in the snow surveys, 

 since Dr. Church was so injured by a fall on an 

 ice hummock as to be temporarily incapacitated. 



Our plan was to remain at Camp Lloyd until 

 ice had formed on the fjord, when with Marius I 

 began laying down the depots of provisions in 

 preparation for the final start for the inland-ice. 

 While laying down the depots we also went hunt- 

 ing, both to obtain fresh meat and to secure blub- 

 ber for fuel. Marius and I occupied the little 

 radio shack which had been the store-house at the 

 camp on the Maligiakfjord in 1926. And in this 

 hut there was no stove of any kind. We therefore 

 heated it by an ordinary Eskimo blubber lamp. 



In the fjord off Camp Lloyd there were great 

 numbers of fresh-water seals and these we hunted 

 in one of the canoes, and we soon had a supply for 

 the winter. Hunting trips away from the fjord 

 made us very familiar with the surrounding coun- 



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