Field Note Book Crocker Land Expedition 1913-1915 No. 52 Greenland VI Etah to Godhaven
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drove around point and it got 60 the bear cub had slid down within 30 feet of the ice foot. It was a small male, a 3 yr old, just the size I should like for a rug so I bargained with it for the skin since he find the fatal shot. The skin therefore was taken off properly for mounting. Skinning cutting up & cooking & eating tired the bear took till 5 o'clock + then we started on Reached Bjorneborg, Peters 'hotel', at 9. Soprano around its little house was at 2 ft deep and evidently no one had been here for some weeks. It is a little box of a wooden shack about 10 ft square + 6 ft high inside entrance way to 5[3] + a little 4-pane window in east wall - a very welcome shelter to us for day tint work on this morning matt. it took as' out. Over the front door is a purple wooden figure of a man which is carved 1905 Bjorneborg. drove with comfort all day + till 8 this evening we were then in the shadow of the cape + it was so cold that I changed to my koolkah.