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to haul all our outfit at one time. Rise above last camp 175 metres, 
with a total above sea-level of 485 metres. | 
April 10th. The weather was fine, but our sledges needed re- 
lashing, and we had so much work to do in order to get everything into 
shape — from now onward we would only have ourselves to rely on 
— that we decided to remain in camp. Our comrades left us at 10 a. т. 
driving southward (Fig. 26). 
April 11th and 12th were spent in camp, travelling being quite im- 
possible on account of a violent northern gale. 
April 13th. The gale did not abate till 12.20, when it calmed down 
in less than half an hour, thus permitting us to start. The condition of 
the surface became better, the further we advanced, and the hummocks 
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disappeared entirely а few miles north of the camp. The rise of the 
ice was very noticeable, but we could nevertheless take all our stores 
at one time and even made rather good progress. 
The weather only remained fine for less than an hour; then a wind 
sprang up again, and it increased continually, until a gale blew from 
NW compelling us to camp after 4 hours sledging, during which period 
we had advanced 5,8 miles with a rise of 65 metres. Total above sea- 
level 550 metres. 
April 14th. A gale blew again all night, and a short lull at 10 a. т. 
only lasted 14 hour, after which it blew harder than ever until 2 р. m. 
when it suddenly calmed down, and we managed to get off in the teeth 
of a still very fresh wind. The going was very good all day, and we 
made rather good progress over a slowly rising surface covered with 
snow, which was only now and then broken by small hummocks. For 
the first two or three miles we had to pass some crevasses, but once 
past these, the ice appeared unbroken. 
