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the tent, taking nothing but the beds and stove 

 within. Early next morning Hunter awoke me, 

 saying, " I guess we are in for a mess," and no 

 wonder, for the end of my bed was then lying 

 in over an inch of water. As it was not quite 

 light when we made this discovery, we were 

 unable to tell exactly what damage was done, 

 and had to wait with the best grace possible 

 until we could see sufficiently well to find the 

 boat. My long gum boots were luckily standing 

 up it was a marvel I had not pulled them off 

 and allowed them to remain where they fell, in 

 which case I should have been more uncom- 

 fortable still, if that were possible. Hunter 

 informed me that the grub-box had gone, but 

 the boat was all right. Now, the former was a 

 hopeless disaster, for it contained all the food, 

 tobacco, and matches we possessed the loss 

 of the boat would only have been one degree 

 worse. I took my glasses, searching the whole 

 flat, but could see nothing. It seems that the 

 tide had been an abnormally high one, a fact 

 that accounted for our being flooded out. We 

 had to search for the grub-box, and entered the 

 boat, proceeding towards the sea, when Hunter 

 said, " What is that ? " There, in the far dis- 

 tance, we espied an object which proved to be 

 the truant box. It had the bear skin still covering 

 it, and how it managed to float to so great a 

 distance puzzled me. It rested on the only 



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