Monday November 23, 1914 After about three hours of very unpleasant sleep I climbed out of the thick air above my bunk and into a good breakfast of scrambled eggs. I intended to sleep some more today but decided to go out to the Island for my mail. Man has asked Jerome and me to spend the week in here. We both hate to miss the time which we fill at the Joy Forum; and the crowd at headquarters are very annoying to us who are accustomed to the profound quiet of our electric-lighted study corner. But after all we are glad to be able to help when we can and the little home out there will seem all the nicer when we get back to it. The lights in here bother my eyes after the brightness of our electric illumination. Hal came back tonight. He had a profitable visit at Kerbi where he dug up the dead woman and saved her in this. He brought back a mid-ship section for the purpose of microscopic study of her cancer. Akduka linguist was sick today but Jot brought her around by a series of treatments varying between hot whiskey toddies and ginger tea. Jerome is doing a lot of printing for me. We are very fortunate in being able to send home pictures of our life up here. This has been printed on other expeditions -- unjustly, I think.