Field Note Book Crocker Land Expedition 1913-1915 No. 52 Greenland VI Etah to Godhaven
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May - Tuesday - B. calm - 67 warm in sun but rather nippy in the shade - all day a beautiful May Day. Hope for as good a day tomorrow. Arrange- ments made for Abel to take me to Upernavik + he + Kahpa will be on hand to start from here about 8 am. Coffee + bread + butter at 8 this am. Coffee again about 11. Lunchon or dinner about 12:30, barley soup with raisins + prunes in it - ham- bruger steak of lean meat, coffee. supper at 6-30, baked seal meat, cheese bread + butter a bit of slided smoked ham tea. I went hunting in my Mel- ville Bay undershirt this morn- ing and got 2.6 doing well? No wonder I had to scratch. Did not sleep very well last night under the feather cover on the sofa in the parlor office, missed my sleeping bag and the fresh cold air of the tent on the ice. glad I am not to stay here any longer. Nielsen + his wife are hos- pitable but he speaks English very poorly and she not at all. I speak no Danish and very little. weight 179k - wt/l = 173.8 lbs