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9 February Friday (190
B, N3; B, N5; B, N2; B, N4; B, N2 3
-14; -15; -13; -12; -7.3 min -16.1; max -6.9
Myaq and his family plus Anahdoo,
Tatiaq and his family, Innutoq
and Pooadloonaa, five kamutiks,
got away for the south this morn-
ing vid the ice cap. Their dogs were
corny looking objects for lack of food.
Painikping and Ahtooksoongua went
up to the head of the fjord to hunt
rabbits and get moss for stove
wicking and I rode up with them.
The wind was almost ahead and
was very keen. I walked on across
the flats and the lake to the front of
the glacier, where I examined the
roll of lake ice which has been
formed by pressure from the mov-
ing of the glacier since we were
there late in October. This roll
is in front of the northern one-half
of the end of the glacier and is 9 or
10 feet high at its highest point.
Mac has seen it larger than it
is now and in the form of an open
arch which he and others entered.
Then I followed the Kommutikes'
tracks along the south side valley
of the glacier and overtook [illegible]
Myaq and Pooadloonaa getting
this party up to the top of the
glacier where Mac and I and