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every day or so and keeps our ice box full of
fresh game.
Allen and I have commenced to build
the electrical room, i.e. to sheath up the
walls and ceiling in order- that we may move in.
Ah tut amquel has finished my blanket. It is
of gray wool blanketing and has a hood. It is
so warm that I have exchanged it for
my flannel lined dogskin coat and my gray sweater.
Allen took eight of the men over and brought
the first lot of electrical cases from the vessel. These
are very heavy and hard to handle.
Friday, September 12, 1913.
Continued snow, wet and cold. All
day he today our the boxes at The Point bringing
them over a dozen at a time in The whale
boat.
The electrical room is taking shape.
Saturday September 13, 1913.
Our fall blizzard still continues. The
trunk in which we still sleep are becoming
quite drifted in. I rescued all of my personal
clothes from the magnetic tent which is becoming
the mother of a snow pile.