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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.