CARLSON'S WINTER DOG-SLED EXPEDITION 



face of a lake the wind caught Mathias's sled and 

 ditched it, and because of the smooth ice he was 

 unable to get proper footing and the sled slipped 

 sideways, coming to a stop when the runner hit an 

 embankment and cracked. A half hour was spent 

 making the repairs. 



March 11 



The wind all day has been from the southeast 

 and east southeast with the clouds from the south. 

 The temperature has been 24°. The ground is 

 entirely barren of snow and sledding is hard. Early 

 in the evening the wind direction suddenly changed 

 to west bringing an intermittent snow-fall, and 

 at nine o'clock the mercury had dropped to seven- 

 teen degrees. Clouds are now coming from the 

 west. 



March 12 



The temperature kept going down all night and 

 at four-thirty this morning when we got up it had 

 dropped to three degrees below zero, which is the 

 lowest temperature we have experienced during 

 the entire trip. We reached the shore of the Sondre 

 Stromfjord at ten in the morning and there the 

 temperature was five degrees above zero. The ob- 

 servatory on Mount Evans was reached at four 



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