Byrd [Chap. 3 - April I: God of 2.5] @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } ALONE by Richard E. Byrd Rear Admiral U.S.N. (Ret.) originally published 1938 by G.P. Putnam's Sons Chapter 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ APRIL I: GOD OF 2.5 During the four and a half months I occupied Advance Base alone, I kept a fairly complete diary. Nearly every night, before turning in, I sat down and wrote a thoroughgoing account of the day's doings. Yet, I have been surprised and puzzled, on reading the entries four years later to find that not more of the emotions and circumstances which I have always associated with the first few days alone were actually committed to paper. For afterwards, it seemed that I was never busier. Although I was up mornings before 8 o'clock and rarely went to bed before midnight, the days weren't half long enough for me to accomplish the things I set out to do. A fagged mind in the midst of a task had little patience with autobiographical trifles. As witness: March 29 .
