Field note book[s], Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1915
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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