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covers on we shall be ready to start afresh and to meet 

 every difficulty, be it lanes, pools, or open sea. It will, 

 indeed, be with a feeling of security that we shall set forth, 

 and there will be an end to this continual anxiety lest we 

 should meet with impassable lanes. I cannot conceive 

 that anything now can prevent us from soon reaching 



REPAIRING THE KAYAKS 



land. It can hardly be long now before we meet with 

 lanes and open water in which we can row. There will 

 be a difficulty with the remaining dogs, however, and it 

 will be a case of parting with them. The dogs' rations 

 were portioned out yesterday evening, and we still have 



