NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



After that date the staff gave their attention to 

 closing up the station while leaving both the 

 meteorological and the wireless plants as nearly as 

 possible ready to open up again in the future. 

 Non-perishable provisions were carefully stored, 

 instruments packed for preservation, and the sev- 

 eral buildings locked up. The old radio shack at 

 Camp Lloyd was, however, left unfastened to be 

 used as a refuge for Eskimo hunters, who in the 

 winter come in from the coast by dog-sled to trap 

 the blue foxes that are so abundant in the neigh- 

 borhood. Placards kindly supplied by Governor 

 Rasmussen and written in the Danish and Eskimo 

 languages were placed on the doors of all the 

 principal buildings, and this will doubtless insure 

 them from depredation, though the Eskimos are 

 not given to pilfering. 



On July 29 the Staff left Mount Evans and 

 reached Copenhagen aboard the Disko on Sep- 

 tember 19. The records of observation have now 

 all reached Ann Arbor and are being prepared 

 for publication. 



Due to the steppe-like climate of this little pro- 

 tected area of the hinterland lying under the lee 

 of the great Knud Rasmussen ice-arm — the an- 

 nual precipitation is about five inches — fogs are 

 hardly known and clear skies prevail almost 



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