NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



messages with reference to the search. Our great- 

 est handicap was the slowness with which news 

 traveled over the Greenland radio network and 

 especially between our station and that of the 

 Landsvogel at Godthaab. A favorable circum- 

 stance was the wrecked Shinfaxe lying in the 

 harbor of Holstensborg, whose radio plant per- 

 mitted communication with Holstensborg in both 

 directions through Godhavn station. 



Belknap with Etes and Carlson proceeded in 

 the motor dory to scout the south shore of the fjord, 

 and at a point in sight of Camp Lloyd, though 

 six miles distant, to set up a signal flag and leave 

 a cache of food with a canoe, tent, lantern, matches, 

 etc. It had seemed to us that Hassell and Cramer 

 if they were down in the region beyond the fjord 

 would probably come out to this point, as was after- 

 wards to be proven, for it was just there that they 

 were found and rescued. A letter of instructions 

 left with the cache stated that lights would be dis- 

 played nightly on Mount Evans and they were 

 asked to signal in reply with the lantern. Potter 

 was sent to the inland-ice border to reconnoiter, 

 while Marius, our Eskimo caribou hunter, was sent 

 in his kayak across the fjord to travel southward 

 in the unexplored country for a four-day period 

 scouting and looking for any Eskimo hunters who 



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