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pounds 4 ounces of wheaten bread and 17 pounds i 

 ounce of aleuronate bread ; so, for that matter, we can 

 manage for another thirty -five or forty days, and how 

 far we shall then have got the gods alone know, but 

 some part of the way it must be. 



" Sunday, June 9th. We got away from our camping- 

 ground at last yesterday, and we were more than pleased. 

 In spite of the weather, which was as bad as it could be, 

 with a raging snow-storm from the east, we were both 

 glad to begin our wanderings again. It took some time 

 to fix grips under the kayaks, consisting of sack, sleep- 

 ing - bag, and blankets, and so load the sledges ; but 

 eventually we made a start. We got well off the floe we 

 had lived on so long, and did not even have to use the 

 kayaks which we had spent a week in patching for that 

 purpose. The wind had carefully closed the lanes. We 

 found flat ice -country, and made good way in spite 

 of the most villanous going, with newly fallen snow, 

 which stuck to one's snow-shoes mercilessly, and in which 

 the sledges stood as if fixed to the spot as soon as they 

 stopped. The weather was such that one could not see 

 many hundred feet in front of one, and the snow which 

 accumulated on one's clothes on the weather-side wetted 

 one to the skin ; but still it was glorious to see ourselves 

 making progress — progress towards our stubborn goal. 

 We came across a number of lanes, and they were diffi- 

 cult to cross, with their complicated net-work of cracks 

 and ridfres in all directions. Some of them were broad 



