CHAPTER | 
IN GUSINA CAMP 
Fune 22nd.—An hour after we had landed the Saxon 
was under way. For a long time I watched her standing 
away to the westward, and then set to work to get 
things square. 
You saw in the picture how we were just separated 
from the sea itself by a clay bank, so that we could 
not work and watch too. 
The actual fixing up of the tent did not take us very 
long, for these Whymper tents are certainly good in that 
way. But of course we had a good deal to do besides 
that. 
It took us some time to collect wood for the fire. The 
beach was strewn with drift-wood, and some of it was 
heavy to bring in. Hyland, who was far better than I at 
carrying weights, really surprised me by the enormous 
logs and trees he bore in on his shoulders. Many of 
these stranded trees had been chipped by the axe on the 
spot where they lay, and some of them quite recently. 
Of course we looked at them with great interest, as 
they were, if we except the sleigh-tracks, the first 
evidences we had seen of human occupation. 
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