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CONQUERING THE ARCTIC ICE 



They started at 9.30 A.M., and I went with them over to the 

 mainland. The dogs pulled all right, but the sledge was heavy, 

 and the men had to slug very hard in order to keep it moving, 

 the more so as the team had not yet become sufficiently 

 accustomed to work together, and was by no means doing its 

 best. 



The weight of Mr. Leffingwell's sledge with outfit was 520 

 Ibs., and he carried provisions for men and dogs for one month. 

 . He was trying a new ration on the trip, with Horlick's 

 Malted Milk as a base. After some alterations he decided upon 

 the following : 



Of course his bill of fare could not but be very monotonous, 

 but we both hoped that it would work well, as we were neither 

 of us partial to a great variety of food on the trail. We 

 thought it would necessitate too much packing and too much 

 cooking. 



Dr. Howe and Thuesen were going to work on a ration put 

 up by Battle Creek Sanatorium, Mich. purely vegetarian food 

 but Dr. Howe was not very enthusiastic about the experiment, 

 as he thought the rations were neither ample enough nor 

 sufficiently nourishing. The Battle Creek ration consisted of 

 numerous small items, for instance, bromose and chocolate, all 

 wrapped up in paper, which, of course, was very inconvenient, 

 as the paper had to be peeled off barehanded, and while doing 

 so the hands were in serious danger of freezing. 



Of all the tiresome days I ever spent, the following days 

 which I passed alone in the cabin were far the worst. From 





