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As I was driving along amidst the pressure-ice, deep in 

 my own thoughts, I was suddenly electrified by the sight of a 

 gigantic tent up on the ice-foot, above the pressure-ridges. It 

 was a pointed tent of the shape we used the first year. What 

 in the name of wonder could it be ? The erection was black 

 and dirty, and positively uncanny looking. I could see the 

 opening of the door ; the flagstaff was in its place and the flag up 



BAT WITH HIS BCCHSFLIXTE. 



a dirty, draggled rag of heavy material. The inmates needed a 

 high tent, it appeared, and I wondered what race of people they 

 could belong to. Whence came they, and what were they doing 

 here ? Travellers they could hardly be ; therefore they must be 

 natives. I have never seen the hut of a troll, but I imagine it to 

 look just like this. 



Such were the thoughts that flashed through my mind, but I 

 soon had something else to think about. My dogs were seized 

 with a perfect panic of fear. They were not easily frightened on 



