Greenland Journal IV 1916-1917
Page 230
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Men were working outdoors (2/7 on their kahnmatiks all day today fixing them for trip with Mac. Almunch finished my bearskin kanikpulis 11 March - Sunday. Ice 61" 0, S E2; 9 N E2; C8, N E4; 0, N E3; B, N E 3 -2.2; -72; -8; -6 ; -10 min - 10.9; max H av - 6.88 Three mile walk in outer bay. Two or Three inches of new snow. Long talk with Mac in evening about Expedition affairs - He is very much exer- cised and even bitter over some of the events up here. He reports that Fitz claimed to be solely under U.S. Govt control and to have no responsibility toward the Expedition or the Museum. all that Fitz wanted was Crocker land and he practically refused to do more than a criminal amount of work - i.e. he did not set up the seismo- graph, did very little magnetic work, mapping tc tc that probably fell to him to do. Jerome was a willing and hard worker, not alone on the wireless experiment but also wherever and whenever he was called upon for anything. Et is a thorough scientist, fully interested in his duties, and alive to his opportunities, though difficult to get along with in some respects. Tank was