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blocks in the dark. At midnight we came across a 
seal (Weddellz), which was killed to feed the dogs. We 
lighted the skin and blubber, which shone like a light- 
house far away into the dark as we slowly drew 
further from it. In the morning the weather was 
misty. There was no appearance of land, and as I 
could get no observations I pitched the tent between 
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MIDWINTER CAMP. 
two ice mounds in the pack. On the 28th July it 
was still misty, and had started to blow with a low 
barometer. Towards evening a violent gale com- 
menced, with heavy drift from S.E. We all had to 
remain inside the silk tent in our sleeping-bags during 
the next three days. It was bitterly cold, — 40, and 
we suffered greatly from frost-bites. Our reindeer 
sleeping-bags were unmanageable comforts after they 
