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Sept 1 - 1915.
No Ship. At Submaradii fine Jno, Mrs.
Hel, Jerome, Jos & I spent the past ten days
killing walrus & expecting a ship. Yesterday we in-
tended. Made plans for the winter & settled down to routine.
The following arrangements were considered & agreed to
in order to conserve our supplies and effect a captivate
living at the house.
1. A committee of three (Leader, Surgeon, & one of
us four in turn) will regulate expenditure of sup-
plies & publish monthly a list & date of provisions
on hand.
2. No Smoking will take in the house.
(hunting)
3. We will have separate cooks 4 weeks each.
4. I will cook at least half of the time. Elber
possibly the other half.
5. We will have two meals, 8 AM & 3 PM,
and a Dinner at 8 P.M. Norringsup st-
ept for the watch.
6. We will hire Woo Wu, Ahduckchingwok,
and Tinmiee x
7. We will have a watch on all nights
as in the past. The watch will have charge
of the water supply and take meteorlogical
readings.
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