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and shovel.
Mon Sept 1. 13.
Today we finished the foundation
work and began laying the floor
timbers. After work at ten p.m.
I went up to the top of the big
hill Southeast of the camp and
looked over the country to see
what the prospects for an aerial
were, - and found that prospects
were very poor. There are no
steep hills around, and the hill
on which I was standing was
too far away to be of any service
even if it had been steep enough.
Hal shot a rabbit and we
had rabbit-stew for dinner today.
We're hungry mortals these
days and eat heartily.
Tue Sept 2-13.
The floor is laid and walls are
nearing completion. I went to the
point today with some Eskimoes
and brought over a load of
electrical machinery, some of
which needed to be put in the
house before the walls were