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the range of Cape Adare. It had soon got clear to 
us all that this track, although undoubtedly left by a 
dog, was not that of a dog belonging to our pack. 
So keenly are one’s senses sharpened in a community 
so small and so far removed from the outer world 
when you daily have to fight natural forces that you 
observe everything. We followed the track a few 
miles down into the bay and found that it did not 
return but led on to a great glacier. I rightly con- 
jectured that the dog who left this track must have 
belonged to the Southern Cross or some other vessel 
in the neighbourhood of Victoria Land, as after the 
return of the Southern Cross later on 1 ascertained 
that the vessel had been in close proximity to Cape 
Adare just at the time, and having lost two dogs on 
the ice pack it was probably the track of one of these 
which we followed. When we could distinguish the 
track no longer, seeing no chance of following it up 
the steep glacier slopes, where the dog evidently had 
experienced great difficulty in proceeding, we camped 
on the very small beach where once Mr. Bernacchi, 
Mr. Fougner, Savio and myself had nearly lost our 
lives. On this occasion also the Lapp and I were 
destined to run a great risk. We had just finished a 
meal, and I had crawled into my kayak to have a 
sleep. Atthe time I had the kayak pulled up on a 
slope under the cliff, when suddenly an avalanche of 
stone and snow rushed down. The snow nearly 
buried my kayak, while some of the stones, of great 
size, settled only a few feet from the kayak in which 
I was lying. Although Savio had called out the 
moment he heard the avalanche, I was not able to 
extricate myself from the kayak before it was too 
