April 6, 1909
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Have Harpers take entire matter, book, magazine articles pictures & stories (100.) Kane got 75 from his book, Nansen 50 for his. Name the camps from Columbia to Pole after Arctic explorers (home & foreign, being sure to remember each nation) & members of the Club & others. Put camps of Markham, Lockwood, Nansen, Fram, Abruzzi etc. at their respective latitudes. Alternate members of club with the explorers. Put Camp Jesup at top. Roosevelt, Darling, Hubbard, Crane, Bridgman, Or use up explorers & then take Club members. 27 march                                       43 d. Tuesday, Apr. 6˚ On the trail again before midnight though I gave the party more sleep at this camp than at the previous ones, as we were all needing it, but I wanted to make the next camp in time for a noon sight if the sun was visible. Weather thick, like the march after Marvin turned back. A dense lifeless pall of grey overhead, almost black at the horizon, & the ice ghastly chalky white with no relief. Like the ice cap, & just the thing an artist would paint for a Polar Icescape. Striking contrast to the glittering sunlit fields over which we have been travelling for 4 days, [Vertically in margin] (continuing note from next page): of my dead reckoning & indicates that I have been conservative in my estimates as I intended, or that the ice has slacked back or both.
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