Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-09-17
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was In touch with my advance every
"a hours. 1 had no reason to complain
OF the going for the next two marches,
though for less experienced party,
less adaptable sledges, or less perfect
equipment 1t would have been an i'm
possibility.
At our position at the end of the
second march Marvin obtained sat
lsfactory sight for latitude in clear
weather, which placed us at 85.4s.
This result agreed very satisfactorily
with the dead reckoning Of Marvin,
Bartlett and myself. Up to this time
the slight attitude of the sun had made
1t hardly worth while to waste time in
observations.
Qn the next two marches the going
improved and we covered good dis
lance. In one of these marches lead
delayed us a few hours. We finally
ferried across the ice cakes.
The next day Bartlett let himself
out evidently for a record and reeled
of plump 20 miles. Here Marvin OBJ
tanned another satisfactory sight on.
latitude which gave the position as
1888 or beyond the farthest north Of
Manson and Abruzzi and showed that
We had covered so minutes of latitude
In three marches. In these three
marches we had passed the Norwegian
record of 1914 by Manson and the
italian record of 1884 by Cagni.
From this point Marvin turned back
In command of the third supporting
party. My last words to him were:
"Be careful of the leads, my boy"
Tho party from this point comprised
men, z sledges and 60 dogs. The con-
ditions at this camp and the apparent
ly unbrcken expanse Of fairly level ice
in, every direction reminded me Of
Cagni's description Of his fartbSst
north, but was not deceived by the
apparently favorable outlook, for
available conditions never continue for
any distance.
Good Going Found.
The northern march was over good
going, but for the first time since
leaving land we experienced that con.
dition, frequent over these ice fields, Of
hazy atmosphere in which the light
Is equal everywhere. All relief is de-
stroyed, and 1t is impossible to see for
any distance. We were obliged in this
march to make detour around an
/ open lead. In the next march we en-
countered the heaviest and deepest
snow Of the Journey through a thick,
& smothering mantle lying In the de-
pressions Of heavy rubble ice, Il came
upon Bartlett and his party, tagged
put and temporarily discouraged by the
heartracking work Of making road.
knew what was the matter with
them. They were simply spoiled by
( the good going on the previous march,
es. rallied them a bit, lightened
+ their sledges and set them on, en-,
couraged again. During the next
march we passed through thick, bit,
4 ing air from the northeast. at the
end Of the march we came upon the
captain camped beside a wide open
lead with dense black water sky
d northwest, north and northeast.
We built our igloos and turned IN
but before had fallen asleep I was
reused out by movement of the Ice
and found a startling condition Of af
fairsa rapidly widening road oil
0l6Ch Wdt0I 1t1Al - lew ltsEt
our igloos. One Of my teams OF dogs
had escaped BY only q few feet from
being dragged By the movement d
ice into the water.
ia2 Another team had an equally marrow
escape from being crushed by the ice
blocks piled over them. The ice or
the north side Of the lead was NOV
ing around eastward The small fiool
" on which were the captains igloos
were drifting eastward Ia the oper
Matsr. and the side Of our igloo,
threatened to follow snit.
Got Ready % Dash.
Kicking out the door Of the isloo1
! called to the captain's men 70 pacl
their slsdges and be ready for ! Quicl
dash forward when . favorable chanGs
arrived. We hurried our things on soul
sledgss, hitched tho dogs, ana movst
IS : large ios Wsst = % Than