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provisions obliged them to make forced marches, and also necessitated a division of the 

 party remaining- behind under a cliff on Hohenlohe Island, while Payer, with two of the 



FALL OF THE SLEDGE INTO A CHEVASSE. 



crew and a small sledge, pressed forward for aid. Crossing an enormous glacier on Crown 

 Prince Rudolf Land, one of the men, the sledge and dogs, fell into a gigantic crevasse which 

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