Field note book[s], Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1915
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Cafe Alexander so we came over the ice cap - ten sledges in all, men, women, children, babies, and pups. On the summit we camped unable to keep our course owing to a heavy mist and slight fall of snow. If you could have looked at us before this scene you would have been interested - ten sledges, a hundred dogs, two of my tents illuminated by the Prussian glowers, two big fat fires blazing in the shelter walls, snow blocks throwing out long and grotesque shadows glancing at all and especially at the men and boys playing "Blind Man's Buff"! I venture to say that the game has never been played in such an environment before and with slight possibility of the blind man ever catching any body! This over I taught them cross tag. Picture the Professor as the papers call him, your old uncle Dudley playing cross