Field note book[s], Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1915
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"We gave it up and drew n, but he stuck it out and found the law. Although I have worn amber glasses all day, my eyes pain me a bit. +190 7 at midnight" Wednesday, May 23 2 A.M. Smith Sound 21st day A number of things delayed us to-day so that we did not get into camp by midnight as usual. It was just as well as the sun has been out only an hour which would have prevented me from taking my midnight altitude of the sun. He started out in a snow- storm, from which open water right in to the ice foot, which was so narrow in one place that we passed over with considerable difficulty and some danger. At another point the ice foot was covered with