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the hill. 4
The boys miles two
que crews houses as
as we also sleds and
Lau-clubs, was one until
us going to Aurelals
we came five in one and
four in others.
I could judge it was
about 20 below zero.
Thursday, March 23
For about a mile this
morning the ice foot was
for all the world like
that we experienced along
the northern slive of Greenland
in 1909. At times one
ledge required four
men to pull and push
it over the high pressure
ridges.
We narrowly escaped
having a bad accident.
Some fifty-hus of ice, I
could judge, dropped
into the sea almost from
under our working men's
feet, leaving the whole