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the time the slush rippled by the side of us. It was an ugly bit 

 of driving we had until we got hold of some old ice farther up the 

 bay. We followed this at first, and after that the ice-foot, until 

 we struck across country. 



We had never before seen such a quantity of snow on the neck 

 of land, and we drove on the German silver all the way across it, 

 without so much as scraping on a single stone. We were on board 

 again by evening. Nor did the winter seem inclined to retire 

 from Gaasefjord either. There was hardly the sign of a thaw to 

 be seen, and, if I remember rightly, June 17 was the first day 

 when the thermometer on board was above freezing point. 



Baumann and Stolz had come back on May 28, Isachsen and 

 Hassel on June 6, and Fosheim and the mate on June 13. 



