The trip from Shore Camp down to Cape Waring had also been tough on Clam. His feet seemed little changed—at least so far requiring no further surgery—but his body was grossly enlarged from the swelling sickness, his limbs and torso engorged to nearly twice their normal size. For days after their arrival, they had to keep Clam propped up in a sitting position, “For when he lay down he would choke and his eyes would roll right around so that you could see the whites of them only,” Chafe wrote in his diary. Clam was in such bad shape that Chafe, Breddy, and Williamson—sharing a tent with
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