Field note book[s], Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1915
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Sept. 1823. I am the first while-man to ever step into these bones since that time. I found in one the part of the heel of a large hot copper forelock, and with large twisting ring bolt. See looks good to south- apr. Sunday, April 1. Up against it good and hard. Here is where we terminate our trip. It is impossible to get around the cape. Open water extends as far north as we can see following the ice front, which for a sledge is impossible. One can hardly walk it because pressure ridges up against face of rocks. I walked south to come on south side and had good fortune to find cains of English Expedition of 1875-76. Near by beneath the remains of a barrel was