Field Note Book Crocker Land Expedition 1913-1915 No. 52 Greenland VI Etah to Godhaven
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37 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