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NEW LAND. 



certainly it is a saying which cannot be used with greater 

 truth than with reference to sledging expeditions, No matter how 

 many sledge-journeys one may make, there will always be some- 



One thing must never 



thing, I think, which can be improved on. 

 be forgotten, and that is, that it is impossible to expend too much 

 care on the equipment ; for on that, in great measure, depends the 

 entire success of the enterprise. 





