April 2, 1909
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Send piece of the sounding wire to the maker. Also to Sir John Murray & Prince of Monaco. Flat Waltham watch to Jo. Tobacco pouch to makers? Florence Stove Green therm. Camp. Tea. B&W Medicine Tube. To makers Collins Pickaxe Marble knife Dunham shoe ivory mounted Winchester Carbine? Herald Fur suit, dogs & sledge to E- M- 2,500 Ditto to Am. Mus. for permanent tableau, in memory M.K.J. 23 march.                                   39 d. Friday, Apr. 2 x 8 hours sound, warm, refreshing sleep. Left camp 5.-a.m. leaving others to break camp & follow. A fine morning, clear, temp -25˚ wind of last days subsided. G Going the best & most equable of any day yet. Large old floes, hard & level with patches of sapphire blue ice (the pools of last summer, & with a surrounded by pressure ridges, some of which almost stupendous, yet easily negotiable either through some convenient gap or up the slope of some huge drifts. Came on at a good clip for about 4 hours when the sledges overtook me. After that obliged to sit on sledges most of the time (setting course by moon, our shadows, etc.) or else run to keep up. Kept the pace for 10 hours.
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