List of “Mutual Belongings for Flying Boat Equipment”
One canvas boat.
One sledge.
One medicine chest.
One tent.
Reserve ski straps.
Reserve pig-skin reins for sledges.
One Primus with cooking vessel (large).
One box, reserve screws, etc., for Primus.
Thirty liters petroleum.
Meta cooking vessel with case of plates.
One kilogram Dubbin.
Sail-cloth gloves, syringes, large nails and sail thread.
One sextant.
One pocket sextant (for sledge journey).
One spirit level.
One chart ruler.
Navigation tables.
One log-book.
Pair of compasses.
Two T squares.
Pencils.
Binoculars.
Six large and four small smoke-bombs.
Smoke-bomb pistol.
One leeway measure.
One solar compass.
One shot gun with 200 cartridges.
One rifle with 200 cartridges.
One Colt pistol with fifty cartridges.
One electric pocket lamp.
Motor reserve parts.
Motor tools.
One ax.
One snow shovel.
One rucksack.
Ropes.
One ice anchor.
One reserve ski pole.
One petrol bucket.
One petrol funnel.
One oil funnel.
One kilogram aniline.
One half sack senna grass.
Ski Dubbin.
Three pilot balloons.
Three pairs of snow-shoes.
On account of weight we were debarred from taking any reserve ski equipment with us. In the event of our requiring new ski parts before the end of a march, the sledges were arranged with a lower part like skis, which could be detached and rigged out as skis with reserve strappings. The idea was that towards the end of such a march everything could, in the event of trouble, be put onto one sledge, leaving the other free for us to dismantle and use. Should any misfortune occur at the beginning of the journey, we would be in a much worse position. For such an eventuality we took snow-shoes with us.
Of these we took a generous number as they weighed so little. Strange to say we did meet with a misfortune. Dietrichson lost both his skis; and one of Omdal’s, which he kicked off, fell through the ice, disappeared in the water, and was carried away by the current.
With the weight divided equally between the two machines we had the following load:
One large and one smaller cinematograph apparatus.
Six hundred meter film.
Two cameras with films and plates.
One petrol pump with long hose.
Behm sounding apparatus with charges.
Arctic maps.
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