SLEDGING 
February 21: Easy wind, clear sky, but 
awful cold. Going across Clements Mark- 
ham Inlet was fine, and we were able to steal 
a ride on the sledges most of the way, but we 
all had our faces frosted, and my short flat 
nose, which does not readily succumb to the 
cold, suffered as much as did MacMillan's. 
Even these men of iron, the Esquimos, suf- 
fered from the cold, Ootah freezing the great 
toe of his right foot. Perforce, he was com- 
pelled to thaw it out in the usual way; that 
is, taking off his kamik and placing his freez- 
ing foot under my bearskin shirt, the heat of 
my body thawing out the frozen member. 
Cape Colan was reached about half past 
nine this morning. There we reloaded, and I 
fear overloaded, the sledges, from the cache 
which has been placed there. Our loads 
average about 550 pounds per sledge and we 
have left a lot of provisions behind. 
We are at Cape Good Point, having been 
unable to make Cape Columbia, and have had 
to build an igloo. With our overloaded 
sledges this has been a hard day's work. The 
dogs pulled, and we pushed, and frequently 
lifted the heavily loaded sledges through the 
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