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used as a place for keeping provisions. The tent-door faced the 

 meat-stack, which was about ten yards off. 



' Quite alone I was not, for I had kept one of Hendriksen's dogs, 

 by name "Susamel." The first night she was tied up down by 

 the ice -foot; but as I was afraid the water might reach her, I 

 carried, with a good deal of trouble, a number of stones to near the 

 tent and chained her up to them as well as I could. Her place 



OUTSIDE HAVXEFJORD. FROM THE ' FRAM's ' DECK. 1900. 



was about ten feet from one of the back corners of the tent, so that 

 she had a free view to both sides of it, and to the meat-heap. 



' Of this my second hermit life there is really though with 

 one exception nothing to say, and, besides, it did not last very 

 long. The days passed uniformly in reading and short walks on 

 the point, where I was invariably, though vainly, on the look-out 

 for game. September 26 was marked by my shooting a raven of a 

 kind which I had not yet been able to add to the zoological 

 collection of the expedition. I began to feel rather dull, and hoped 

 somebody would turn up from the "Fram" a visit had been 

 suggested, but did not take place. It did not seem either as if the 



