Field note book[s], Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1915
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20) 345-(17 145 2/3 15/3- 15 343 590 lbs of Gemmeican, 137'1/2 Pecan, 48 cans milk, (five of which are condensed coffee) 5 lbs sugar . tea for 40 meals , and twenty four gals. oil. Our dogs are in fairly good shape after covering the 345 miles at an average of 17 miles a day. Archie has thus for sort- four and mean- five - was one, two years cago they hurt nearly all. I can see North Cornwall very clearly now that the sun is working toward the north. By the way it lies 45 miles away. We cannot see Amund Ringnes land . E-Val, ah- two who stopped there on his way south with Dr. Cook tells me the coast is low- therefore this may account- for it. He also says they camped here at the point. at the northern end of this land we killed caribou which gave us fresh meat- befre starting. If we could only be to forewell- to