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trip, we noticed a curious snow-formation that I had 

 never seen before. Fine extremely fine drift-snow 

 collected, and formed small cylindrical bodies of an 

 average diameter of 1| inches, and about the same 

 height; they were, however, of various sizes. They 

 generally rolled over the surface like a wheel, and 

 now and then collected into large heaps, from which 

 again, one by one, or several together, they continued 

 their rolling. If you took one of these bodies in the 

 hand, there was no increase of weight to be felt not 

 the very slightest. If you took one of the largest and 

 crushed it, there was, so to speak, nothing left. With 

 the temperature in the -- 40's, we did not see them. 



As soon as we came home, we attended to the heels. 

 Prestrud had both his heels frozen, one slightly, the 

 other more severely, though, so far as I could determine, 

 not so badly as the other two. The first thing we did 

 was to lance the big blisters that had formed and let out 

 the fluid they contained; afterwards we put on boracic 

 compresses, night and morning. We kept up this 

 treatment for a long time; at last the old skin could 

 be removed, and the new lay there fresh and healthy. 

 The heel was cured. 



Circumstances had arisen which made me consider it 

 necessary to divide the party into two. One party was 

 to carry out the march to the south; the other was 

 to try to reach King Edward VII. Land, and see what 

 was to be done there, besides exploring the region around 



