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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.