WITH BARON KLEIST 
£69 
my legs and feet was severe and I seemed to have 
lost every bit of energy I had ever possessed. My 
eyes were bloodshot and I was so’ stiff I could 
hardly move hand or foot. Kataktoviek had little 
swelling but suffered a good deal of pain in his legs. 
We were both pretty thin; I had lost thirty or 
forty pounds and Kataktoviek was equally worn 
down. 
Before I began to recover from this swelling 
of the legs, I developed an acute attack of tonsilitis. 
It was the first trouble of the kind that I had ex¬ 
perienced in all my Arctic work. I recall that on 
the North Pole expedition, while we were en¬ 
camped at Cape Sheridan and most of us were 
away on hunting trips, MacMillan and Doctor 
Goodsell opened a case of books and both came 
down with violent head colds. The books were 
brand new books, too; apparently they had been 
packed by a man with a cold. The baron had a 
clinical thermometer with him and he found that 
my temperature was well above normal. My 
throat was ulcerated and sore but I used peroxide 
and alum and after a time the infection subsided. 
When the tenth of May came, however, the ton¬ 
silitis was still with me and I was conscious that 
it had weakened my whole system for the time 
being, in addition to the physical weariness of which 
the swelling in my legs and feet was a symptom. 
