chap, in TO SPITSBERGEN 



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begin with, resulting in the purchase of two ponies warranted 

 to eat dried fish-heads or any other garbage, and that proved 

 entirely satisfactory. Then there were our men to be inter- 

 viewed — Pedersen the senior, an old sea-dog reputed to be 



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well versed in Spitsbergenography, and a strong man of less 

 precisely defined qualifications, whose name was the Norwegian 

 equivalent of Williamson. There was also business to be 

 transacted with the vice-consul and at the post-office, further 



