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Wednesday, April 29th
50th day
Again we get- it-. Old Tornjak,
the Arctic devil did not see us
come in yesterday from out-
to sea fuel layed for us
today. It began to blow a
bit- as we were eating
breakfast- Was afraid it would
so was up at 3-30. Instructed
Green to to examine Peary's
cave on joint and put in a
record and got- away at once
walking ahead of my dogs.
Gradually the wind increased
in force until finally it was
a flight- to get the dogs
to face the blinding drift.
At- last we found our last
land igloo and crawled in.
It had drifted nearly full
but a few minutes work made
it habitable. Our big clothes bag
was stuffed into- the door way,
the lamp lighted, the tea and
kumican boiled and here we
are warm and comfortable
sitting to the rush of wind
and drifting snow sweeping
over us.