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mark owing to thick fog, but after two or three miles' 

 march we found the place again. 



When we had rested here and given the dogs as much 

 seal meat as they were able to eat, we started again on 

 the 26th. The temperature remained steady, between 

 - 5 and - 22 F. 



At first we had made up our minds not to drive more 

 than twelve to eighteen miles a day; but this proved to 

 be too little, thanks to our strong and willing animals. 

 At lat. 80 we began to erect snow beacons, about the 

 height of a man, to show us the way home. 



On the 31st we reached the depot in lat. 81. We 

 halted for a day and fed the dogs on pemmican. On 

 November 5 we reached the depot in 82, where for the 

 last time the dogs got as much to eat as they could 

 manage. 



On the 8th we started southward again, and now 

 made a daily march of about thirty miles. In order to 

 relieve the heavily laden sledges, we formed a depot at 

 every parallel we reached. The journey from lat. 82 

 to 83 was a pure pleasure-trip, on account of the surface 

 and the temperature, which were as favourable as one 

 could wish. Everything went swimmingly until the 

 9th, when we sighted South Victoria Land and the con- 

 tinuation of the mountain-chain, which Shackleton gives 

 on his map, running south-east from Beardmore Glacier. 

 On the same day we reached lat. 83, and established 

 here Depot No. 4. 



