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this one dish. Erbswurst was ground up for soup 

 and oatmeal was added for thickening. This was 

 eaten with dried pemmican and with narwhale 

 hide (mdtak) as dessert. 



At five-thirty the next morning Enok was up 

 and filled the cooking pot to the brim with ptarmi- 

 gan, which had been obtained on the march the day 

 before. The birds he had first cleaned with his 

 hands and mouth leaving the feathers on one foot 

 of each to make it easier to fish the birds out of the 

 pot. To wash down the half-cooked bird each had 

 a cup of black coffee, and when these had been 

 drained it was found to be seven o'clock, the time to 

 be off. The sky was overcast and the air tempera- 

 ture 12° Fahrenheit. 



Until ten o'clock the route was over the ice of 

 the lake until its head was reached, and then over 

 the dry bed of a winding stream which connects 

 this lake with smaller ones farther back in the 

 hinterland. In places the snow was here covered 

 by wind-blown sand, making the same type of 

 hard sledding that Bangsted had encountered and 

 described as "sandpaper" almost exactly a year 

 earlier on his sled trip from Camp Lloyd to the 

 Russell Glacier. 



Several small lakes included along the bed of 

 this river course broke the monotony of the jour- 



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