BANGSTED'S EXPEDITION TO THE ICE-CAP 



myself very slowly to the instrument shelter. 

 When I got back to the tent, Marius was lying on 

 his back unconscious and Church also was unwell. 

 I hardly knew what to do. With no doctor you 

 must depend upon yourself and Nature. We lay 

 around all that day and late at night we had 

 strength enough to get up and cook a little oat- 

 meal and pea-soup. After eating this we felt 

 better. The next day we were all right again. 



We spent sixty busy and profitable days on the 

 inland-ice. One of the outstanding scientific re- 

 sults was the evidence brought out of the rapid 

 evaporation of the ice from the surface. The lack 

 of snowfall was most serious on the way out, and 

 it brought us daily into peril. The rough ice was 

 so slippery that we were compelled to use a two 

 hundred foot length of rope in order to let the sled 

 and the bundles of equipment down the slope. 



This return trip to Camp Lloyd we made in 

 the month of March, when conditions were even 

 more difficult than they had been during the 

 outgoing trip in January. We had the mis- 

 fortune to break one of the sled runners again so 

 that it was necessary to divide the load. Our 

 light articles were put on the sled, which was driven 

 by Marius and Dr. Church. The remaining 

 articles were lashed together in two reindeer skins 



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