A Diary and Journal from the Second Grinnell Expedition

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Elisha Kent Kane Diary

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2. From Ten mile Ravine to Basalt Camp 6. m

3. From B. Camp to Helen River 10. (bottom of Bedevilled Reach)

4. Helen River to Devil's Jaws 9 (off Godsend Id inshore side)

5. Godsend Id to Anaotok. 4

Total travel 39

Anaotok to First Hummock Pass]3

Hummack Pass to Old ice South 7. Old ice & young to Second Pass 22 Across Second H. Pass to S. end of Littleton Id 8 S. End of Littleton to Point Salvation 2 Point Salvation to Esquimaux Huts 12 54

Total in miles 83 Temp = about -45° Range of same -40 to -60°

Resources. Five nearly starved dogs. Hans and Dr Kane. a light sledge and outfit.

Outfit

To encounter broken ice in the midst of darkness and at a temperature destructive to life, every thing depends upon your sledge. Should it break down, you might as well break your own leg, there is no hope for you. Our sledge is made of well tried oak, dove tailed into a runner shod with iron. No iron except [save] the screws and [riots?] which confine the sledge to its runners is used besides [throughout the structure]. In [such] this intense cold, iron snaps like glass and no immoveable or rigidly fastened woodwork would stand for a moment the fierce concussions of an arctic drive. Every thing is put together with lashings of seal skin, [tied securely in its place] and the whole fabric - seemingly a

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