Field note book[s], Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1915
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Transcription
"We find on this point about a half mile from the islands a small rocky islet built up against like I poles as if a white-man had constructed it as a shelter for sleeping- always with the desire to get away from the crowd on the main, always to try with a sleeping bag in preparation for a trip. Wednesday June 2nd The long sought-in-lead arrow or summit observatory island has been found at last. Following instructions we look "5 feet due west I arrived at an enlarged crack as a glass jar containing pearls," we searched but found it gone. Many has evidently been here. Lobby showed me where as a boy he saw the traces of the white-men. The frigate "Advance 1853-55" was not visible after 2 years I examine... Look a panorama of barren also fields of Kane