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through a good deal before we arrived, and here was a 

 warm, cozy nest, where we had nothing to do but to sit 

 down and wait. Waiting, however, is not always the 

 easiest of work, and we began seriously to think of set- 

 ting off again for Spitzbergen. But had we not delayed 



