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idea of their furnishing me with some warmth, followed 

 them in and tried to cover the hole over with the piece 

 of canvas. I succeeded in this only partially and during 

 the following night a good deal of snow kept sifting in. 



I was pretty tired by the struggle of the day and it 

 was not long from the time the dogs and I got into the 

 house until I went to sleep with one of them for a pillow. 

 I slept well until morning when I began to notice that I 

 was getting wet. My clothes had been pretty well filled 

 with snow and then the house was overheated by myself 

 and the dogs, so that I was everywhere damp and on 

 parts of my body soaking wet. I feared this might be 

 serious, for the clothes would become stiff as soon as I 

 went into the outdoors cold. But there was nothing to do 

 but to try it as soon as it was daylight. 



Shortly after the first glimmering began to show through 

 the translucent snow roof I went out, hitched the dogs to 

 the sled as quickly as possible, and started off. There 

 was no trouble now for the weather was beautiful — clear 

 skies and hard frost. About four miles of driving brought 

 me in view of the Amundsen camp at King Point and I 

 saw the other sled hitched up and the men ready to start. 

 When they saw me coming they waited and started a fire 

 to cook my breakfast. 



I learned later from the boy that they had gone ahead 

 probably half a mile or so the previous evening before 

 noticing that I was not following. The boy had then 

 wanted to stop and go back for me but Kanirk had said 

 I would doubtless conn along. When they got to the 

 cabin and cooked supper without my coming, the boy 

 had again proposed that they go to look for me but this 

 Kanirk had simply refused to do. The next morning the 

 boy had wanted to go back and look for me but Kanirk 



