Field Notebook: Greenland 1987a
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Time. Tents are once pitched and a meal prepared and by 5 P.M. Mrs. White and I are off to collect provisions. We return by 8:30 and have supper. Return at 11 P.M. The natives shoot bridled ducks, and quail. A clear day of sun shine. Our native boat men are Paulus, Ludwig, J. Thamm and Oolie. Aug 11-97 Wednesday, South Greenland, small brigyda. My first attempt to sleep in a tent with four persons in it proved a failure. I lay awake most of the time and at 3:30 denied stand at my bags. On going out I found the sun well up and almost over the high cliff of Omernath which is over 3700 feet high. Concluded to tramp to the foot of the glacier about one mile and a half from camp. As usual in this region distances are very deceptive and I did not calculate the distance to be so far. This glacier is not of pure ice extending to the sea but in one of the dirty almost black, handled in stratified kind. The stream coming out of it is a turbulent yellow-brown one, and has formed a fan shaped delta of considerable extent. The cliffs on each side of this stream are from 10 to 75 feet high all of drift material. The stream-