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FARTHEST NORTH 



— 45.4" Fahr. ( — 43' C). Disentangling dog-traces in this 

 temperature with one's bare, frost-bitten, ahnost skinless 

 hands is desperate work. But finally we were in our 

 dear bag, with the ' Primus ' singing cozily, when, to 



A NIGHT CAMP ON THE JOURNEY NORTH 



crown our misfortunes, I discovered that it would not 

 burn. I examined it everywhere, but could find noth- 

 ing wrong. Johansen had to turn out and go and fetch 

 the tools and a reserve burner while I studied the 



