Greenland Journal IV 1916-1917
Page 228
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This evening was made out (2/5 list of new clothing to be made for me for my trip - sleeping bag, knickers, stockings, pants - and started ahmeelah in the knick ers. He gave Kolovenguy 2 cases of jerrycan and 10 gals oil to take with him for use on my trip southward. I gave K. 24 kroner with which to buy the material from Peters for a new kahmatik for the trip. Ahlehoodisaos'oog made a lamp body from a cornmeal can. While Dr. Wulff was here he told me about the hard time that he and Peter had in trying to reach Cape York in Norway. June dry. First they were turned back by open water near cape athol. Then they crossed the ice cap to the glaciers at the head of Cape York Bay, but they could not get down that to the sea ice. For fourteen days they battled with the crev- esses and had several narrow es- capes from disaster and then they turned back. Dr. Wulff had been on the same route in November without encountering the crevasses, but in the intervening two months the glacier had moved 8 or 10 kilometers, appar- ently. The sea ice in Cape York Bay has not gone out entirely in many years, they say. Evidently the pressure of the glacier accumulated until it sud- denly overcame the resistance with the effect above indicated. I hope that I shall be able to see something of this wonderful phenomenon - as for as the sea ice is concerned at least when I go south.