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have any use for, bear-traps in which we never catch 

 a bear, axes and many other things of like usefulness. 

 For the moment there is a great manufacture of wooden 

 shoes going on, and a newly started nail-making 

 industry. The only shareholders in this company are 

 Sverdrup and Smith Lars, called ' Storm King,' because 

 he always comes upon us like hard weather. The 

 output is excellent and is in active demand, as all our 

 small nails for the hand-sledsfe fittings have been used. 



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Moreover, we are very busy putting German-silver 

 plates under the runners of the hand sledges, and 

 providing appliances for lashing sledges together. 

 There is, moreover, a workshop for snow-shoe fastenings, 

 and a tinsmith's shop busied for the moment with repairs 

 to the lamps. Our doctor too for lack of patients has 

 set up a bookbinding establishment which is greatly 

 patronised by the Frauis library, whereof several books 

 that are in constant circulation, such as Gjest Baardsens 

 Liv og Levnet, etc., etc., are in a very bad state. We 

 have also a saddlers' and sailmakers' workshop, a photo- 

 graphic studio, etc., etc. The manufacture of diaries, 

 however, is the most extensive every man on board 

 works at that. In fine, there is no thing between 

 heaven and earth that we cannot turn out excepting 

 constant fair winds. 



'Our workshops can be highly recommended; they 

 turn out good solid work. We have lately had a 

 notable addition to our industries, the firm ' Nansen 



