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has thought of me. I do not even know where she is. In my 

 mind I have seen sister Mayde at work on something mysteri- 

 ous for the past week. I must try to put my mind on some- 

 thing else or I shall have a spell of homesickness. I placed a 

 bamboo pole across the front of our bed and draped the two 

 United States flags (one belonging to the National Geo- 

 graphical Society of Washington, and the other to the Phila- 

 delphia Academy of Natural Sciences) a la portiere across the 

 front; then on the wall just beside my place I have hung the 

 photographs of my dear ones. 



Saturday, November 14. Very little worthy of note has 

 happened this week. My daily routine is always the same ; I 



take my coffee in bed, then get ^ , 



lunch for my family, take a walk * -^ T A 



afterward, usually with Mr. Peary, iClL ^ 



then sewor read, and at four o'clock .^^^^ _^i^^^ 



begin to get dinner. Last Thurs- ^f^^^^^^^^^^r 



day Gibson initiated Frank into ^^^^^^^^^F 



dragging a load of ice from the J^P^^^^^^r 



berg to the house. Yesterday was M W WK 



lovely and clear, and the full moon ^ ^^ '^"^ 



which we have throughout the 



twenty-four hours, made it as 



bright as day. Our walk to-day 



was to the berg, a mile distant (as 



measured by our newly finished odometer wheel), and return — 



the first long walk Mr. Peary has taken ; his leg did not feel 



Frank. 



