CHAPTER I 



IN GUSINA CAMP 



June 22nd. — An hour after we had landed the Saxon 

 was under way. For a long time I watched her standing 

 away to the westward, and then set to work to get 

 things square. 



You saw in the picture how we were just separated 

 from the sea itself by a clay bank, so that we could 

 not work and watch too. 



The actual fixing up of the tent did not take us very 

 long, for these Whymper tents are certainly good in that 

 way. But of course we had a good deal to do besides 

 that. 



It took us some time to collect wood for the fire. The 

 beach was strewn with drift-wood, and some of it was 

 heavy to bring in. Hyland, who was far better than I at 

 carrying weights, really surprised me by the enormous 

 logs and trees he bore in on his shoulders. Many of 

 these stranded trees had been chipped by the axe on the 

 spot where they lay, and some of them quite recently. 

 Of course we looked at them with great interest, as 

 they were, if we except the sleigh-tracks, the first 

 evidences we had seen of human occupation. 



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