Field note book[s], Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1915
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Transcription
19 Have decided to return at once. We have not enough dog food to remain and our prospects of getting game very unpromising... If I return with the little I have it may furnish us with enough to explore North Cornwall, the northern part of which no one has visited. I have the boys build a cairn out of our biscuit and Germanian tins while I got a few rights for azimuth and longitude. There is a dead cloud in the South which might portend more bad weather. 11 P. M. 20th is strange how things work out. Two hours after leaving Friday Land it began to snow shutting out our view of all lands. I thought we were in for it and could see all our Germanian taken by the dogs and our retreat...