[Journal of the Crocker Land Expedition]
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FOREVER. 247 Earth bringing more snow than me - for the third time this winter I did not go out for my regular exercise walking or working. One more week and we will have not only daylight but moonlight too. In fact for than a week for the snow is due tomorrow. Sunday, January 7, 1905. Clear with light NE wind - 20°. Tjerne now to engine to charge the batteries. We both went into Etah as usual. Mine is still there. Tot is a little sick with the cold coughing which the South Greenlanders brought up last year. Monday, January 18, 1905. Clear with light NE wind. New moon -20°. The men went north after breakfast intending to hunt scattish. We returned to the Island this afternoon. I saw a rabbit track near our ice fort showing where we had missed a visitor. The wind has eaten a hole in my new igloo. This is not so tragic as it sounds. The satisfaction in an igloo comes to an intense climax when the last blocks slips into place locking the structure into one single stout shelter and completing the marble dome which reflects the single lantern with a dazzling brilliance.