NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



After a light lunch of dry pemmican we went 

 still further out on the ice but had no luck. Not 

 a trace of the plane! Where it could be is beyond 

 me. There are no crevasses or fissures and the 

 snow is not deep enough to cover a large plane. 

 My conjecture is that the storms with high winds 

 have torn the plane to pieces and scattered the 

 parts. At five in the evening we returned to camp 

 tired and disappointed. 



March 9 



The wind is still blowing from the southeast. 

 At midnight the temperature had dropped to 22°. 

 Early in the morning we got up and the three of 

 us again walked out to make another search for 

 the plane. About four hours were spent in this 

 search. The high winds and the blowing wet snow 

 made our task difficult. At one in the afternoon 

 we returned to camp, loaded our sleds, and started 

 on the long trek homeward. With the gradual 

 descent we made fast progress and covered the 

 ten miles from the nunatak to the ice-edge in four 

 hours. 



March 10 



Puddles of water on the lakes and rivers make 

 sledding very bad. While passing over the sur- 



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