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It is not as small, however, as Mac's trying to appropriate
the snow knife that Captain Comer fixed for me (vid. p.542).
The mate fixed up another ice chisel today
and got 45½ inches for the thickness of the ice.
6 February. Sunday.
Clear, cloudless, calm or with occasional
light puffs of wind from the north.
Temp. min.-23°; 9a.-21°; noon-23°; 2p.-24½°
Walked about four miles with Ekblaw
on the hills northeast of the igloo, went
over to see a snow drift glacier in a shallow
valley. The ice of this