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paces from them, laid their heads down and went to 

 sleep again. They barely moved when I pricked them 

 in the snout with my pikestaff, but I was able to o-et 

 a pretty good photograph of them. I thought I now 

 had enough, but before I went I gave the nearest one 

 a parting poke in the snout with my pikestaff; it got 

 right up, grunted discontentedly, looked in astonishment 

 at me with its great round eyes, and then quietly be- 

 gan to scratch the back of its head, and I got another 

 photograph, whereupon it again lay quietly down. When 

 we went on, they all immediately settled themselves 

 again, and were lying like immovable masses of flesh 

 when we finally rounded the promontory and lost sight 

 of them." 



Once more we had snow-storms, and now lay weather- 

 bound on the south side of the island. 



" Friday, May 29th. I-ying weather-bound. 



"Saturday, May 30th. Lying weather- bound, stop- 

 ping up the tent against the driving snow while the wind 

 flits round us, attacking: first one side and then another," 

 It was all we could do to keep ourselves tolerably dry 

 during this time, with the snow drifting in through the 

 cracks on all sides, on us and our bag, melting and sat- 

 urating everything. 



" Monday, June ist. Yesterday it at last grew a little 

 calmer, and cleared up so that we had bright sunshine in 

 the evening. We rejoiced in the thought of moving on, 

 got our kayaks and everything ready to launch, and 



