Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-01-26

busy ON a postgraduate course.
All eros the Pacific we had three
lectures weekly on such things as
Physics. Transportation and Dogs.
Biology. Scott Expedition. Photog-
raphy, Geology and Geophysics.
Shackleton Expeditions. Camping
and Trail Parties. Meteorology.
Cooking. Clothing and a dozen other
subjects, with u W experts do
ing the lecturing. Needless to say.
all our minds are crammed with
knowledge we didn't have before
and now that we are in the grea,
ice pack. we are finding daily use
for it. The Expedition is proving a
wonderful education. Every day 4
stumble over some bit of equiv,
ment that puzzles me so find til
man in charge and ask him all
about it-Mukluks (skin bootSl,
Parkas (hooded coats). sleeping
bags, portable radio transmitting
and receiving sets for use out Son
the trail 1t is difficult to grasp what
a tremendous undertaking this is
until one actually sees the myriad
of details invOlved-and still each
department functions as smoothly
and casually as if two year Ant
arctic Expeditions were ordinary
occurrences. The supply officer is
going in and out of holds and store
rooms all day long checking and Sc
gregating thousands of boxes
crates and packages intended foi
Little America. Everything intend
ed for the ice is marked Barrier
and in my sleep l can hear the sup
ply officer yelling Drop that, it's
for the b%arrier!!"
Now we're constructing dos
sledges. It's interesting. Not one
piece of metal goes into their as
emily. 0 a nut or bolt or nail.
ney are made of eleven pieces OF
i tery tough and resilient wood.
ltongued and grooved. We are lash
ing them together with thin strips
of rawhide. permitting them to yield
to shocks and stresses without
breaking the wood. Capt. Innes
Taylor, in charge of the dogs, told
me today that an ordinary team
consists of nine dogs and that the
average load is around a thousand
pounds. sometimes greatly exceeded
tor short distances.
The dogs are being measured ano
fitted with harness and seem to be
looking forward to the comparative
freedom of the ice. Poor dumb
smelly brutes! every time a dog is
fitted to his harness he goes into
a canine ecstacy of barking, yelping
and wriggling. The harness consists
of a collar. like a miniature horse
collar. a set of traces and a snahe
ring for attaching the dog to the
lead line. The dog drivers say the
dogs must be watched carefully be-
cause they sometimes get so hun
cry they eat the harness.
A radio from New York tells me
the maps we r sending to mem
bers so they can mark them and
thus keep track of our flights,
tractor trips and other explora-
lions are ready and are being sent
to members without cost. They tell
me the club membership is now
well up in the thousands so II you
haven't joined now is the time to
send me a self-addressed stamped
envelope at the Little America
Aviation and Exploration Club, Ho-
tel Lexington, 48th Street and Lex
iugton Avenue, New York, N. Y,
and get your membership card and
map, without any obligation of any
sort. This club is a ~favorite hobby
of Admiral Byrd's, to encourage
American aviation, and he hopes to
have at least 100, 900 members be,
fore we get back.
Next Week:-OT for
Little AmeriealD