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along the extensive shoals east end of Disco Island - saw mine Flamingo
on the journey. Crossed the bay on the sea
ice and came to an empty igloo at 10-30
p.m. Snow now seem a [illegible] feet
deep here since it covered iglos com-
pletely leaving only the stove pipe stick-
ing with mark locations. My boys dug
out door way and went into house,
but came out saying that it was "no good".
Lighted mails primus had coffee and start-
ed in all from overland. A pretty good
crest had now formed on the soft snow
I went along south side of island sometimes
in the land and sometimes on the sea.
Reached Stansen at just 5 a.m. Y.
28 May, Monday after a rather stormy
but not un-
interesting journey of 18 hours - Guss-
lev, [illegible], is factor here + his wife is
sister to We We. They were much in-
terested of course to get news from itah.
The trip from [[Jeragsagput had not
been without incident additional to oo-
took & bids. Ize is getting treacherous
now. Giving a crack, Stansen's sledge
broke the case which it struck and
let its near go down 15 inches into the
water, but my tin box probably pro-
jected its contents + Stansen did
not get wet. While crossing the [illegible]