13/17 My right foot dipped into the water to the ankle. I do not understand why I did not go down bodily into the water. Had I gone in to my waist there would have been a serious result, for the sledges were some distance away and the temperature was 47 deg. In the absence of an igloo and a change of clothes near at hand, a ducking in this temperature would certainly have a serious termination." Trying conditions these--yet the thing had its irresistible fascination, and now and then came reflective moments like the one on February 25, when the doctor, encamped on the way from the _Roosevelt_ to Cape Columbia, wrote as follows: "When I was nearing Point Good, insensibly I paused time and again to view the scene. |