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Lime juice at 7.30, and at eight started off Melville 

 and Nos. 1 and 3 sleds, while Ericksen and Leach took 

 on two dog sled loads. 



Weather a trifle pleasanter. Much fog prevails, 

 through which the sun glimmers and blinks like a 

 drunkard's eye. 



Sick, so so. Chipp has had a bad night, and is much 

 the worse for wear this morning. Alexey is so easily 

 upset by a little stomach-ache as to lose his grip alto- 

 gether. Lauterbach looks as if he were going to at- 

 tend a funeral any moment, and must keep his counte- 

 nance to the proper point of solemnity. Danenhower's 

 trouble is, of course, his blindness. Mr. Dunbar be- 

 gins to wear again, and I have cautioned him to be 

 careful of himself for a few days, and not to exhaust 

 all his strength. 



By 8.45 Melville had returned from a little distance 

 ahead, having broken a McClintock sled, or rather dis- 

 abled it ; for we at once set to work to right the turned 

 runner, and strengthen it with an oar lashed along the 

 inside. No time was lost in sending along one more 

 sled load, and at 9.15 Ericksen and Leach had started 

 with another invoice drawn by dogs. 



On this second trip unfortunately a runner of a Mc- 

 Clintock sled doubled under, and had to be brought 

 back for repairs. I kept Nindemann and Sweetman to 

 do this, and sent on the boats and continued the trips 

 of the dog sleds. At 10.30 I sent on the doctor with 

 the sick, and at 11.30 everything else having gone 

 ahead, Nindemann, Sweetman, Aneguin, and myself, 

 with some dogs, dragged along the dingy and a few cans 

 of provisions, and reached the halting place by 11.55 

 p. M. 



For the first time in our experience we were able to 



