[Journal of the Crocker Land Expedition]
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190 Thursday November 12 1914 Gentle N E breeze, clear with fog and (-10° -10°) haze in the SW. Jerome worked for a long time on the new bite this afternoon although it was colder than the below zero he managed to sew on all of the pants, what I think is an example of true heroism. I started my 2nd but the wind was so chilly that I swung down behind the first island. I fol- lowed the sledy tracks and found the walking very toler- able even where the trail led me up on the ice point. I met Oddie and Katherine about an hour to visit some of Becomes Chinquah's fox traps. They told me that Dan- chinquah and Revolution were in at Etalo having just arriving from Eloodihanni. Cobboyah and Aklis are both gone North without having gotten any game. We had a very good dinner with a little of the Caribou meat we can still scrape off the bone we got some time ago, as we were finishing that, offered carrying a lantern, I suppose that he had suddenly felt as the he must get out, as a man does sometimes, and the lantern and our house proved the solution. I am beginning to see sense in Jerome's scheme. Since I turn in between 2nd & 3rd AM and he is up by 5th AM we have a fire through the 24 hrs. We are burning less coal since the snow came to banks up the house.