Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-21
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anxiety of without
supplies Francke just the this
good effect for he had of preparing primitive
visions that made dinners quite equal to Holland
House spread
In the middle of October skins prime and then
traps distributed many caches By
this time abandoned AMI
snugy settled in their winter oos The ground
with nearly frozen everywhere
Everybody busy preparing for the coming cold and night
The about degrees below Severe
becoming less frequent and the though COLDER less
humid dsagreeable. fort formed and the
sedgng by short excursions to bait the fox
traps and gather the foxes.
All these pursuits of building and repairing
making dog harness shaping winter clothing kept
up lively while great which hold down
the unruy deep for many months thckened and closed
During the last days of brief sunshine the weather cleared
and October everybody sought the freedom OF the
for last glimpse of the dying day There charm OF
color and glitter seemed happy the sank
under the southern for not rise again for 116 days
The Eskmos took this signal enter trance of sad
which of each family and the discomfort
of the year enacted in dramatic chants dances.
But the sunset of for the final work
in directing the shaping of the outfit with which begin the
quest of pole of 1908 Most expeditions have had
advantage the liberal hand of ample
private fund We denied both favors.
But incumbered with cargo of misfs devised
by dreaers project handicapped by the usual
army novce white best regarded
compared with the efficiency of the Eskimo in his
Our food supply contained only the prime fac
primitive Special foods and laboratory
coctons did not fill important space in larder.
Nor had balloons automobiles sleds other freak
We did however have abundance of the best hickory
material for the sled its
sories which henceforth linked with destiny.
The evolved the result of careful study of local
of the anticipated surface norhward We
did the McCnock sled with its which
by explorers for fifty Nor did abandon
the oldfashioned iron shoes for German silver strips
WHAT A POLAR SLED SHOULD BE-
conditions which polar sled complex
the best qualities
Eskimo craft with tough hickory fiber and sealskn aings
joints With plenty of native ingenuity foresee
provide for the train of adpaby and endurance the
sibiities of sled factory very good
dog Eskimo pattern adopted but canine
economy such that when ations reduced workable limits
leather strips disappear food To this disaster the
shoulder made of folds of while the
traces cut from cotton log line
boat important adjunct sledge base of opera
ton. 1t of necessity when following the
coast ne shown by the misap of Myths Erickson tor
tell the story
of the Danish expedition to East Greenland
Need for boat with the changed conditions of the
advancing Things be carried for several months for
chance in the last of the return But since food sup
plies necessarily limited delay fatal Therefore when
boat becomes in the nature OF lite
preserver.
explorer ignores this detail of the
problem Transport of boat however offers serious obec
tons Nansen introduced the kayak explorers since have
adopted device The Eskimo the
carry without hopeless de-
sructon requires amount of energy which stamps the polar
with failure
SELECTING BOAT.
Sectional boats skin floats and other devices
objection i'm
possible transportation. ordinary
folding boat has been pressed this
We found it fit the situation exactly, selecting twelve
foot shaped STATS spreaders
and floor utilized of seds The
served floor cloth for sleeping bags Thus the boat did
useful service for hundred days and evidence
device
When last the craft spread covered
red the sled, in caped
which took the place of exhausted supplies Without
would have
Preparation of the staple food supply of greater i'm
than of locomoon
arctic enterprise transit successive die
choice of equipment often
stomach.
From the published impos