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but there were still twenty-six remaining, and as a set- 

 off against our losses w^e had the puppies, eight of which 

 had been permitted to live. As spring advanced they 

 were allowed to roam the deck, but on May 5th their 

 world was considerably extended. I wrote thus: "In 

 the afternoon we let the puppies loose on the ice, and 

 ' Kvik ' at once took long expeditions with them to famil- 

 iarize them with their surroundings. First she introduced 

 them to our meteorological apparatus, then to the bear- 

 trap, and after that to different pressure-mounds. They 

 were very cautious at first, staring timidly all around, 

 and venturing out very slowly, a step at a time, from the 

 ship's side; but soon they began to run riot in their 

 newly discovered world. 



" ' Kvik ' was very proud to conduct her litter out into 

 the world, and roamed about in the highest of spirits, 

 though she had only just returned from a long driving 

 expedition, in which, as usual, she had done good work 

 in harness. In the afternoon one of the black and 

 white puppies had an attack of madness. It ran round 

 the ship, barking furiously ; the others set on it, and it 

 bit at everything that came in its way. At last we got 

 it shut in on the deck forward, where it was furious for 

 a while, then quieted down, and now seems to be all 

 right again. This makes the fourth that has had a sim- 

 ilar attack. \\ hat can it possibly be ? It cannot be hy- 

 drophobia, or it would have appeared among the grown- 

 up dogs. Can it be toothache, or hereditary epilepsy — 



