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north in spring ? The experiment in drawing a loaded 

 hand-sledge over this ice was certainly anything but 

 promising ; and if the dogs should not hold out, or 



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{From a Pliotograph) 



should be of less use than we expect ; and if we should 

 come to worse ice instead of better — well, we should 

 only have ourselves to trust to. But if we can just get 

 so far on with the Fram that the distance left to be 

 covered is at all a reasonable one, I believe that it is my 

 duty to make the venture, and I cannot imagine any 



