EXPLORING IN THE CARIBOU COUNTRY 



reached. Our four Eskimos were kept busy pack- 

 ing provisions, gasoline and fuel to Mount Evans 

 for the long winter. 



\Vlien the kite house had been completed, the 

 cook and dining tent was fitted with a frame work 

 of joists and boards. Etes then added one of the 

 house doors with frame and fittings which had been 

 purchased from Sears, Roebuck & Co., and brought 

 in with us. Outside the canvas walls of this tent, 

 which were about two feet high we then built up 

 a stone and sod wall and extended this also across 

 the back and on either side of the front door. The 

 back and sides of this tent-house were now lined 

 with boxes containing equipment and provisions, 

 and the structure thus became a semi-permanent 

 one fitted to withstand the winter's storms. 



Beside our sleeping tents we had now at Camp 

 Lloyd three buildings; the radio shack, which had 

 been brought in from the Maligiakf jord and had 

 been the winter home of Bangsted and Marius, 

 but was now used by Potter as a photograph 

 studio, and in addition for certain stores; the kite 

 house with store space and a bunk; and the dining 

 and cook tent-house. 



On the summit of Mount Evans besides the 

 observatory with its two storerooms, we had the 

 new stone and sod storehouse and in addition the 



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