Field note book[s], Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1915
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"But two and two together I concluded that the cliff was forced out ? Unusual by the ice. Then he told me that Green was at Kangerd- look - vale ! In "Set Rich Inish Hallingford" Birney says: "Did you hear the same thing that I did?" This is what I felt like saying. I then made him repeat it . Yes, he was on his way to Etah with Pelee. I then concluded that he had been left by Storm in charge of my stuff. The next utteral terance by As-tale was to- the effect that the cliff had either gone down or had been lifted up! To my question "Are all the men down there?" The reply "Oh yes, they are all there!! I felt like a quashed Tomato. My dreams of two years of good hard work were cold vanished.