[Journal of the Crocker Land Expedition]
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53 Wednesday September 14 - 1913. We have built a long box in the ceil- ing of the electrical room. One side of this is formed by the wall of the living room just behind the stove. By this arrangement we hope to try their warm enough for efficient service. Today we put the batteries up there. The box has a cover of short boards and goes into the attic. The total weight is about 1 Ton. All of the ice was blown out of the cone to- day. Thursday Sept. 20 - 1913. The men of the village have been working on their snowshoes and dog harnesses for some days. Today they piled timbers and sledges into this whole boat and started for the glacier. They are going up over the ice-cap hunt- ing for caribou among the hills up near Res- nellaer Bay. It is snowing hard - Friday Sept. 26-1913. Karlstein, Alotok and I went up to the fresh water lake under the glacier. We took hooks and lines with us. No fish were caught at- though we fished for several hours.