EXPLORING IN THE CARIBOU COUNTRY 



heavy clouds above it, a beautiful double rainbow 

 was seen. It rained and blew until noon. In 

 spite of the heavy weights my tent was blown free, 

 but lying on my back I held on to the sides until 

 Marius, who was already up fastening his tent, 

 brought still heavier rocks to anchor it again. In 

 the afternoon we set out to go to our first camp 

 on the in-trail above the base of Monroe Bay, but 

 we went too far south. The southwest wind blew 

 so hard that we could just make our way against it. 

 Purple foehn clouds were in the sky and these first 

 billowed up from the southwest, these clouds com- 

 ing clearly from the Knud Rasmussen ice-arm. 

 We reached Camp 2 in the late afternoon and at 

 once went into camp. 



It was evident that a still harder blow was now 

 coming on and so all of us at once sought pro- 

 tected places at which to set up our tents or at least 

 to crawl into some protected nook. I was able to 

 find a niche in the rock wall, in reality a sloping 

 ledge with an overhang. With some cleaning out 

 it was found to be just large enough, so with stones 

 and turf I built a wall shelter at the southern end 

 and I climbed in. Potter and Marius decided to 

 set up their tents on the lee side of the ledge. 

 During the night the wind blew with velocity esti- 

 mated to be 100 miles per hour. I had found room 



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