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seemed perfectly wild, running away from 

 their huts as soon as they perceived us ap- 

 proaching, from a considerable distance, 

 I began to be tired of advancing further 

 up into this inhospitable country. We 

 had not at this time tasted bread for seve- 

 ral days, the stock we had brought with 

 us being entirely exhausted. The rich 

 milk of the reindeer was too luscious to be 

 eaten without bread, and the ordinary or 

 second-rate cheese occasioned such a de- 

 gree of costiveness as I could no longer 

 endure. I determined therefore to return 

 towards Quickjock, which was forty miles 

 from this spot. In the course of my jour- 

 ney thither, walking rather carelessly over 

 the snow, without noticing a hole which the 

 water had made, I fell through the icy 

 crust into the deep snow. The interpreter 

 and guide were totally unable to assist me, 

 the cavity in which I lay being very steep, 

 and so hollowed out by the water that it 

 surrounded me like a wall. It was not in 



