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There is a wolf in on the trail watching us! Has evidently followed us well from other side.
Fed our dogs 2 1/4 lbs after this morning. One of Filz's in too great a hurry to swallow his portion choked to death. Filz- ran for his knife and slit open his wind-pipe an operation called tracheotomy, but he only took one breath. We then tried the resuscitation act but that failed as well. He is now lying dead among his team. This leaves only 6 out of 9 which Pee-ah-wah- to start trail from home, one giving out on the polar sea, and in Eureka Camp, and this one sleeping today.
E- has lost two, killing one on the sea ice, and one freezing under the snow with Filz's team. Filz lost all 9, 5 giving out and 4 dying under the tents below the cafe.
By anroid today the summit of glaciers is 4700 feet high.