The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-10-30

was given 10 the altitude of uplifted anG
submerged regularities.
Atmospheric, surface water and ice
temperatures were taken, the barometer
was noted. the cloud formations, weather
conditions and ice drifts were tabulatcd
There was a continuous routine of work
which does not appear here. 1t belongs to
the specific details of tho history of the
Exploration. which will appear in the
later publication of scientific data
This work, like the effort = foot in
the daily drive of duty. became more OF
less automatic, and does not Mt nny time
enter as an active part of the story. AS
we now ran along over seemingly endless
fields of ice the physical appearances
came under a careful scrutiny. / watched
daily for possible signs of dangerous
failure in strength, for serious disability
now meant n fatal termination.
disabled man could neither continue
nor return. but every examination gave
another reason to push human endurance
TO the limit of the strain of every 6brc
and cell. The hard work which followed.
under an occasional burst of burning sun
beams, brought intense thirst
Forcing the habit OF the camel, we man
aged To take enough water before start
ing TO keep sufficient liquid in the veins
for the days march, but it WAS ditBcul,
TO await the melting Of the ice ut camp
iDg time.
In two sittngs-eycning and morning
each took an average ot three quarts of
water daily. This included the tea and
also the luxury of an occasional soup.
There was water about everywhere in
heaps, but it was in crystals. aud before
the thirst could be qUenchcd several
ounces Of precious fuel, which had been
carried thousands of miles, must be used
And still this water, SO expensive aud so
necessary TO us, ultimately became the
greatest baDe TO comfort. 1t escaped
through the pores OF the skin, saturated
the boots. formed band of ice under the
knee aud belt of frost about the waist,
while the face was nearly always encased
IL mask of iciclcS from the urcnth-u
necessary purt of our hard lot i'll life, and
we learned TO take the torture philosophi-
cally. Prom ice it comes. 10 Ice it goes, /,
Ike the other elements of the body, when !
the good preacher promounccs the last
words from dust 10 dust"
From the eighty seventh 10 the eighty I.
eighth parallel we passed for two days
over old ice without pressure lines or
lummocks. There was no discernible line
,l demarkati0n for the fields, aud 1t was
lultc impossible 10 determine il we were
'n land or sea ice. The barometer indi-
;ated no elevation. but the ice had the
iard. waving surface of glacial ice, with
'nly superficial crevasses The water
obtained from tins was not salty, but all
# the upper surface OF the ice of the
Iolar sea makes similar water. The
lautical observations did not seem 10 in Il
licate drift, but nevertheless the COM 5
'iued tabulationS do not warrant the posi-
i've assertion Of either land or sea for
his area. +
An Air Line Course ,
This ice gave cheering prospect. ,
lain purple and blue III in easy undula. :
ions TO the limits Of vision without the
sual barriers of upliftcd blocks. Over -
t direct air line course was possible. =,
'rogress. however, VAS quite as dimcult :
$ over the irregular pack. The snow
ius crusted with large crystals. An in.
reosed friction reduced the speed, while