SCHAROK AGAIN 257 
We were back at our fire on the sands by 11 p.., 
and after eating the bean goose lay down to rest. 
July 27th. woke at 3.30 A.M. to find a north-east 
wind and freezing fog. After a good long walk along 
the sands, during 
which I saw many eH a Var ACA. 
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brent and many san- 
derlings, I returned FF 
at seven and woke 
Hyland, and back we 
walked to the boat. 
We had anything 
but an easy time of 
SAMOYED BELT, WITH KNIFE, 
it getting home ; and FLINT-POUCH AND HONE-CASE 
had I not recorded 
the bearings very carefully when we came out we should 
have got into a mess. Any one who has tried to navigate 
the creeks in an unknown estuary with tide at ebb 
knows what that means. 
On our return I reproached myself much for having 
taken Hyland out when I heard him say, ‘ Well, sir, I do 
feel bad. My back is all aching, and the pain shoots all 
about.’ I imagined it was liver, so sent him to bed 
with physic. At 4 p.m. I went up to Hyland’s hut. He 
was fast asleep. When I visited him again at 6 p.m. he 
woke up at my entering, and said he was worse. 
However, I made him eat when I had cooked a brent 
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