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CONQUERING THE ARCTIC ICE 



seven days after we had left the tent, looking like a skeleton 

 with skin stretched over it. 



The gale had spent itself by the time we had passed two 

 days more with our kind friends, and Ned's two sons started 

 with us for the ship as soon as the weather permitted it, but it 



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ESKIMO WITH TEAM RETURNING TO THE SHIP. 



took me three weeks to recover from the frostbites I got on that 

 awful trip. 



Fiedler stood the trip well, and never by word or action 

 showed the slightest distrust of my judgment, nor uttered 

 a complaint during the fearful night of suspense. He is made 

 of good metal, and he is liked by all of us. 



At 4 A.M. on January 22 we were back on the ship, where our 

 comrades were very glad to see us and told us that they had 

 had some serious misgivings as to our safety. 



The preparations for the sledge trip had gone on all right and 

 we would easily be ready to start by March i. 



Mr. Leffingwell and myself had many things to talk over 

 regarding the outfit for the sledge trip and particularly con- 

 cerning the provisions we were to take. We agreed to take 

 out two rations, one with Horlick's malted milk as a base, and 

 one with pemmican. We would take an equal amount of 

 both rations and try one against the other during the eighty 

 days of actual fieldwork which we expected to have. A full 



