NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



balloon inflating shelter. This latter is useful for 

 its original purpose during the summer time only, 

 since the water which is used to decompose the 

 calcium hydride for inflating the balloons with 

 hydrogen freezes during the cold season. It is then 

 necessary to inflate the balloons within the obser- 

 vatory. The shelter is, however, serviceable for 

 storing fuel or other materials. 



The country across the fjord is largely un- 

 known to white men, though it is visited each 

 season by Eskimo caribou hunters who come up 

 from Sukkertoppen in their umiaks in family 

 parties large enough to undertake the portage of 

 the umiak across the high divides between the 

 lakes of the district. These hunting parties remain 

 from a month to six weeks, living on caribou and 

 bringing out with them at the end of the season 

 all the meat which they can carry to be disposed 

 of at Sukkertoppen. One family has stopped at 

 Camp Lloyd and we have been able to secure a 

 supply of this most delicious of all meats for the 

 winter supply of Mount Evans. 



Because hunted by the Eskimos the caribou 

 have become exceedingly shy, and they have re- 

 tired ever farther and farther back behind the 

 high ridges until they are now seldom to be found, 

 the Eskimos tell us, until they have penetrated 



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