Field note book[s], Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1915
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alfred gardner Greenes...- My own party will first put up an ice house, and then construct a stone one inside, the others have decided to build stone houses first, and then surround them with ice. Our house will be eight feet by eighteen in the clear. Many Eskimo relics and a number of relics have been found in and around these permanent houses...- Oct 5th.- Our house has its stone walls nearly completed. - We are now heated, having four inches of wools under us...- From Darlington's note: "English report on small island near Brewster Island Boat at Cape Isabella --" "Rice reported that he had visited Cape Isabella; that no whaleboat could be found." "We build at the only place where it is possible