Greenland Journal IV 1916-1917
Page 227
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7 March, Wednesday. (214) B, E2; B, N3; H, N24; O, N22; H, E2 Am -10.08 -12; -10; -10; -9.4; -9. Min -16.8; Max -8. Dr. Wneff and the Eskimos left this morning about 11 o'clock, leaving Arktis and Akkpoordisaqsooq and their families but taking Adwegreen and his family - 8 Kahmstiks in all. They went via the ice cap and rode to the glacier with Teddingway - visited the line of stakes and walked a quarter mile or so farther up on the glacier. Dr. Wneff tells me that there are some narrow transverse crevasses in this (Brother Johns) gla- cier near the cap itself. I could not tell by the unaided eye whether the stakes had moved during the winter or not, though the southern one third of the line had sagged a little westward in its middle. The roll in the lake ice has greatly increased in length and the southern half of it has been extended as well as raised. It is now about 15 feet in maximum height above the level of the lake ice, the side toward the glacier is slightly overturned past the vertical (stoss side) and there is a 2 ft + hollow in the lake ice on the far (western) side. Made a seven mile walk in all. Sum- mmit overtook me off our river gorge. I might have ridden all the way down the fjord!