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Tuesday April 3.
Well up Baird Inlet
Absolutely the worst going
I have ever experienced.
Evidently no wind here for
ages. The wind has no bottom
at all. Ultimately we have
nothing on our sledges but-
sleeping bags in the dogs cried
never feel them. Have cached
our loads about half way
between here and Cape Vella
where we shall pick them up
on the return.
Baird Inlet is not at all
like on the map. We are the
first to ever enter it as
far as I can learn. Even the
Glenies have never been here
before.
Tonight we are in a half
snow hole and half qles
dug out of a snow slide, the
only bit suitable for a home.
E- showed me a trick-
to-night to light up qles
with primos by tipping up-
burner. No more candles on
the trail!