Field note book[s], Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1915
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an hour. Allowing fifteen each for four stops in untangle places, our actual time was fifteen hours and forty minutes. This makes the distance 50.8 miles. To save our dogs we have walked half of this at least. Yesterday afternoon a sand appeared north-west of us which did not bowerland with anything in this tract. I obtained a bearing of it 279° E. Throughout the night as we went on it might fit it somewhere. Today however, it was as much a mystery as ever. Mr Arthurs declared it to be Cape Ludwig and that I had passed and missed what we were headed for. Calculating mentally local apparent time with from Ekala mean time and taking a bearing of the sun I told them we were all right and the new land was