Greenland 1915 1 Record of Photographs
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our mooring - They had not put the boxes of oranges, guns + walrus gun aboard the large boat + they had to leave them on shore in order to get out again. Much vertically columnar basalt along this part of the shore. Deep, narrow canyon discharges just beside our moorage. Old igloo here. Also caches of walrus meat and canned goods belonging to our Eskim people. Peter + Sigdlu went ashore about 10 o'clock. The little boat (the Clutts' work boat) was almost wrecked in the surf by the chunks of ice. We pulled the tender out by means of the powerboat + at high tide 2 p.m. Hendrick went ashore by spooling a- long the mooring rope and got the men but left the boxes. At about 3 o'clock Peter went