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with which they pricked it when it would not go. If it 

 fell into a crack, they dug it up again as you would see 

 men quarrying stone at home ; it had not enough life in 

 it to be able to escape its tormentors. All this was 

 accompanied by laughter and jokes. On arrival at the 

 ship the animal was nearly dead, and it* was left there 

 till it expired. 



On the 19th we had a fresh south-westerly wind and 

 a lot of ice went out. The Japanese were occupied 

 most of the night in going round among the floes and 

 picking up men, dogs, cases, and so on, as they had put 

 a good deal on to the ice in the course of the day. As 

 the ice came out, so the Fram went in, right up to 

 lat. 78° 35' S., while the Kainan Maru drifted farther 

 and farther out, till at last she disappeared. Nor did 

 we see the vessel again, but a couple of men with a tent 

 stayed on the Barrier as long as we were in the bay. 



On the night of the 24th there was a stiff breeze from 

 the west, and we drifted so far out in the thick snow 

 that it was only on the afternoon of the 27th that we 

 could make our way in again through a mass of ice. In 

 the course of these two days so much ice had broken up 

 that we came right in to lat. 78° 39' S., or almost to 

 Framheim, and that was very lucky. As we stood in 

 over the Bay of Whales, we caught sight of a big 

 Norwegian naval ensign flying on the Barrier at Cape 

 Man's Head, and I then knew that the southern party 

 had arrived. We went therefore as far south as possible 



