Field note book[s], Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1915
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with her chin, but when she found it getting cold she slowly walked out of her shelter toward the team kitched some distance away. I called her back, tied her and buried the dead. This morning there were two others stiff with cold by her side. she had evidently paid no attention to them at all. On the march she dropped another which I saw away back in the snow. Yelled to Lily to stop his team and ran back to get it. Could not help it warm on the sledge so put it in on my breast. Twice I lost it out in the snow, it kept crawling around and around my body and went out through the back of my anion seat. Finally I got out my sewing kit and sewed up all holes. I thought then it would smother as I was working hard and sweating. We covered two marches walking for 12 3/4 hours nearly every step of the ways in snow shoes, as we approached our old camp at head of Bay Lord we saw a white wolf, his seals and a