Greenland Journal IV 1916-1917
Page 186
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The bodies of two of his pups (1/23) were found to-day. They were the best two too. One got caught on the hill before the blizzard and was afraid to come down. Hunger and the storm finally drove him down, but he lost his way in the blinding snow and froze to death. The other, the biggest of Mac's brunch, got mixed up with some of the big dogs here and was killed. The half-eaten body was found on the ice or ice foot by Kah-wee-ahk-suah. 21 January. Sunday. Ice 50" B,N4; O,Nx7; C1,Nx7; B,Nx4; O,Nx4 -6;-7;-3.5;-4;-5.5-mix-9½+1½,Av -5½. Across fjord at midday, a two mile walk that was not very agreeable on account of the high wind and the smother of drift- ing snow in the air. Getting lights every day! Excitement to-day was the breaking out of a fire in We-We's igloo beneath the house. Igloosnahni was down there in Mayak's case, but the man went to sleep and the boy upset the stove or spilled the oil out of it somehow and set stuff on the bed plat- form afire. The smell of smoke a- wakened Mayak and he put out the blaze before much damage had followed. Dangerous all right!