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our arrangements eventually proved to be somewhat defi- 

 cient. As, on our departure from home, the prevailing 

 idea was that the greatest and most substantial discoveries 

 must be made with the ship, our instructions spoke only 

 of probable glacier excursions to the interior of the country, 

 and not of extensive sledge journeys along the coast and 

 the banks of the Fjord. At the outfitting in Bremen 

 there was, therefore, no provision made for these, and our 

 sledge apparatus (tents, coverings, and so on) was not 

 quite what it ought to have been. 



During the summer we had learnt from experience that 

 the round tent with a pole in the centre, which we had 



TENT FOli SLEDGE-JOUKiNI^YXJS'Ci. 



brought from Bremen, was not practically useful ; it was, 

 therefore, changed into a four-cornered one, and provided 

 with a roof. At each corner a pole was placed, perpen- 

 dicularly, and fastened l)y ropes, held and propped up 

 with stones. In stretching the roof also ropes had to be 

 made fast to the gi'ound. Tliis tent answered our })urpose 



