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about 4 o'clock we started un
loading the cache and drove home.
Takes a half hour and now
we are on a large ice berg.
It had begun getting dark
blocks for an overnight sleep.
The young men are hunting
sleds around the big bear.
We left the thrays at the car
till morning about 3 more miles
Then 3 ft deep
Light W-NW whole part of afternoon
calm evening - Beautiful,
clear sunset at 7-30 by my watch
Wish that I could photo bear camp
on the slope of this big ice berg - Our
first snow igloo of the trip since leaving land and my first camp on an iceberg. Very nice now and there is lots of thin young ice south of us but I do not care to rival craft Japan - we are on the south western edge of a perfect maze of hundreds of bergs. Just NNE of us is a berg 500-1000 feet long wide at this end and perhaps a mile long that looks like the end of a glacier with its surface prominently but unduly