Field note book[s], Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1915
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"Ellis Granite men at Cafe Sabine an ordinary Laurentian Granite." Cafe Sabine 78°30' W. Ross bay was now crossed in order that a record weight be left at Cape Herschel on the mainland of the great island of Ellesmere. -- "2nd looks little time to attend to the duties of the landing at Cape Herschel, where a document taking formal possession in the name of King Edward VII., for the Dominion, was read, and the Canadian flag was raised and saluted. A copy of the document was placed in a large cairn built of rocks on the end of the cape. Sundays On Aug. 24, we passed Princess Charlotte Monument (a natural rock which looks like human handiwork), and steered west through Lady Aim Strait. We now set our course for Sir Robert Inglis Reals, the