[Journal of the Crocker Land Expedition]
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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.