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off victorious. But what does the dazzling day to the 

 south conceal? Inviting and attractive the fair one 

 lies before us. Yes, we hear you calling, and we shall 

 come. You shall have your kiss, if we pay for it with 

 our lives. 



The following day Sunday brought the same fine 

 weather. Of course, there could now be no thought of 

 Sunday for us. Not one of us would have cared to 

 spend the day in idleness. We were now divided into 

 two parties: the sea party and the land party. The 

 sea party ten men took over the Fram, while on this 

 day the land party took up their abode on the Barrier 

 for a year or two, or whatever it might be. The sea 

 party was composed of Nilsen, Gjertsen, Beck, Sund- 

 beck, Ludvig Hansen, Kristensen, Ronne, Nodtvedt, 

 Kutschin, and Olsen. The land party consisted of 

 Prestrud, Johansen, Helmer Hanssen, Hassel,Bjaaland, 

 Stubberud, Lindstrom, and myself. Lindstrom was to 

 stay on board for a few days longer, as we still had to 

 take most of our meals on the ship. The plan was 

 that one party, composed of six men, should camp in 

 a sixteen-man tent in the space between Ronniken 

 and Nelson, while another party of two were to live 

 in a tent up at the hut site and build the hut. The 

 two last were, of course, our capable carpenters, Bjaa- 

 land and Stubberud. 



By eleven o'clock in the morning we were at last 

 ready to start. We had one sledge, eight dogs 



