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day separation between our traveling groups had made it clear that 

 I was less of a handicap riding in the sled than double my weight of 

 groceries would have been. 



Part of Castel's instructions were that he was to carry with him 

 southward certain things which we did not need now but would 

 find useful during the summer. He was to make a depot of these 

 on the south coast of King Christian Land, or rather on Osborn's 

 Findlay Land. My present plan was to return that far south dur- 

 ing the month of July and spend the summer either there or on 

 the south coast of Borden Island. 



