CHAPTER XXII 



THE RESCUE 



N the second of September, 1928 

 — an outstanding date in the 

 annals of the University of 

 Michigan Greenland Expedi- 

 tions — we were hard at work 

 preparing for the long winter by packing supplies 

 up to Mount Evans. Only Schneider, Carlson and 

 Baer, who composed the regular staff, occupied 

 bunks in the observatory hut on Mount Evans. 

 The rest of us lived in tents at Camp Lloyd, but 

 as Belknap and Stewart were now working on the 

 Mount Evans section of their map, they were 

 temporarily housed on the summit, though Stew- 

 art was spending the day at Camp Lloyd. 



At Camp Lloyd a high wind was blowing from 

 the southerly quarter and the waves sweeping in 



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