I Had Made Perhaps Not More Than Six Or Eight Miles In
A Straight Line By Six O'clock This Evening When I Reached Ice So
Hummocky And Tedious I Concluded To Camp And Not Try To Take The Sled
Any Farther.
I intend to leave it here in the middle of the basin and
carry my sleeping-bag and provisions the rest of the way across to
the west side.
I am cozy and comfortable here resting in the midst of
glorious icy scenery, though very tired. I made out to get a cup of
tea by means of a few shavings and splinters whittled from the bottom
board of my sled, and made a fire in a little can, a small campfire,
the smallest I ever made or saw, yet it answered well enough as far
as tea was concerned. I crept into my sack before eight o'clock as
the wind was cold and my feet wet. One of my shoes is about worn
out. I may have to put on a wooden sole. This day has been cloudless
throughout, with lovely sunshine, a purple evening and morning. The
circumference of mountains beheld from the midst of this world of
ice is marvelous, the vast plain reposing in such soft tender light,
the fountain mountains so clearly cut, holding themselves aloft with
their loads of ice in supreme strength and beauty of architecture. I
found a skull and most of the other bones of a goat on the glacier
about two miles from the nearest land.
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