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was told that they not only bore the cold well, but were 

 far more hardy than the older ones. While the grown- 

 up dogs were glad to go into their tents in the evening, 

 the little ones refused to do so; they preferred to sleep 

 outside. And they did so for a great part of the 

 winter. 



Now all the men have finished unchaining their dogs, 

 and, with their lanterns in their hands, they move in 

 various directions and disappear apparently into the 

 Barrier surface. There will be many interesting things 

 to see here in the course of the day I can understand 

 that. What on earth became of all these people? There 

 we have Amundsen; he is left alone, and appears to be 

 in charge of the dogs. I go up to him and make myself 

 known. 



' Ah, I'm glad you came," he says; " now I can intro- 

 duce you to some of our celebrities. To begin with, 

 here is the trio Fix, Lasse, and Snuppesen. They 

 always behave like this when I am out could not think 

 of leaving me in peace for an instant. Fix, that big 

 grey one that looks like a wolf, has many a snap on his 

 conscience. His first exploit was on Flekkero, near 

 Christiansand, where all the dogs were kept for a month 

 after they arrived from Greenland ; there he gave Lind- 

 strom a nasty bite when his back was turned. What 

 do you think of a bite of a mouth like that? " 



Fix is now tame, and without a growl allows his 

 master to take hold of his upper and under jaws and 



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