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MARION EXPEDITION TO DAVIS STRAIT AND BAFFIN BAY 



was too constricted to allow much of a sea to be built up, and the 

 duration of the blasts was too short to cause the ship to drag or to 

 blow off the small boats very far. The only damage done was the 

 salting up of a few open boatloads of water, which necessitated their 

 being'emptied and filled up again at the stream. The dry warmth 



caused by the com- 

 pression of the 

 cl o w n-flowing air 

 pervaded the whole 

 locality, causing the 

 dry bulb to read 72° 

 F. at 8 p. m., while 

 at the same time the 

 wet bulb read only 

 55° F. 



The greatly dis- 

 turbed local atmos- 

 pheric conditions 

 can be realized from 

 the following ob- 

 servation. Despite 

 the dry heat of the 

 place, several times 

 we saw^ large snow- 

 flakes falling. At 

 first, we did not be- 

 lieve that snow 

 could fall with the 

 thermometer round 

 the 70° mark, and 

 w^e supposed the 

 great white flakes 

 were some sort of 

 dow^n torn by the 

 wind from a species 

 of plant ashore. 

 When we caught a 

 few of the flakes in 

 our hand and saw 

 and felt them melt, 

 however, we soon 

 changed our opin- 

 ion. At dusk the 

 work o f w^atering 

 ship was suspended 

 and all hands en- 

 joyed a good night's 

 i-est after the stren- 

 uous 10-day run from Godhavn, Greenland, the last place where the 

 anchor had been down. 



The morning of August 24 was devoted to watering ship, to 

 striking the last barreled oil into the fuel tanks, and to preparing 



THE REMNANTS OF A ONCE EAKGEIi STP.EAM UE ICE 



Figure 30. — We climbed over several former end moraines 

 and finally got to a last steep slope of rock fragments 

 which led directly to the ice. The heights behind this 

 small glacier are among the highest of the Torngat Moun- 

 tains of northern Labrador. 



for 



the next long run. 



Some of the officers started out after break- 



