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but this can only be done by tying up one of his forelegs ; 
when harnessed and after he has hopped along on three 
legs for a few paces, he is again allowed to use the fourth. 
He is going to be a trial, but he is a good strong pony and 
should do yeoman service. 
Day is increasingly hopeful about the motors. He is 
an ingenious person and has been turning up new rollers 
out of a baulk of oak supplied by Meares, and with 
Simpson's small motor as a lathe. The motors may save 
the situation. I have been busy drawing up instructions 
and making arrangements for the ship, shore station, and 
sledge parties in the coming season. There is still much 
work to be done and much, far too much, writing 
before me. 
Time simply flies and the sun steadily climbs the 
heavens. Breakfast, lunch, and supper are now all 
enjoyed by sunlight, whilst the night is no longer dark. 
Notes at End of Volume 
' When they after their headstrong manner, conclude that it is 
their duty to rush on their journey all weathers; . . — 1 Pilgrim's 
Progress.' 
1 Has any grasped the low grey mist which stands 
Ghostlike at eve above the sheeted lands.' 
A bad attack of integrity ! ! 
* Who is man and what his place, 
Anxious asks the heart perplext. 
In the recklessness of space, 
Worlds with worlds thus intcrmixt, 
What has he, this atom creature. 
In the infinitude of nature ? ' 
F. T. Palgrave. 
It is a good lesson — though it may be a hard one — for a man who 
