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vided with Shetland things. I am glad you have marked 
mine, as they are all so much alike. I am certainly as well 
provided with private gear as anybody, and far better than 
most, so, being as well a generator of heat in myself, I 
should be O.K. in any temperature. By the bye Evans and 
Wilson are very keen on my being in the Western Party, 
while Campbell wants me with him in the Eastern Party. 
I have not asked to go ashore, but am keen on anything 
and am ready to do anything. In fact there is so much 
going on that I feel I should like to be in all three places 
at once—East, West and Ship.” 
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