THE SEARCH FOR HASSELL AND CRAMER 



Hassell had plans for a new flight, but we were 

 unable to get a reply. Later it developed that 

 Hassell through the Times station had asked us a 

 question but it had not come through to us. The 

 Times, as they later told us, had tried to reach us 

 every evening at 7 o'clock, whereas during early 

 August we began to have radio reception at about 

 10:30 o'clock, and transmission was possible only 

 between 12:30 midnight and 3 or at most 4 o'clock 

 in the morning. 



On the 14th of August, however, we secured 

 contact with the Times, and once more were 

 startled to learn that Hassell would take off on a 

 new flight the next morning. We were asked why 

 we had made no reply to a query sent us on the 

 6th, for the Times seemed ignorant of the fact 

 that we had not received their messages. 



AVlien this message now came through to us only 

 the station staff consisting of Schneider, Carlson, 

 and Baer were at our base. Potter and I had been 

 absent and were still away on an exploring trip to 

 the south west ward beyond the fjord, and Belknap 

 with Stewart was away on survey work somewhere 

 between Camp Lloyd and the inland-ice border. 

 Carlson is a cross-country runner and a letter man 

 at the University. He at once set off with the 

 Eskimo Nathaniel following the trail along the 



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