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spite of our chagrin, and feel comfortable inside — added 
a small stick of chocolate and the queer taste of a cigarette 
brought by Wilson. Now for the run home and a desperate 
struggle. I wonder if we can do it. 
Thursday morning, January 18. — Decided after summing 
up all observations that we were 3*5 miles away from the 
Pole — one mile beyond it and 3 to the right. More or 
less in this direction Bowers saw a cairn or tent. 
We have just arrived at this tent, 2 miles from our 
camp, therefore about ii miles from the Pole. In the 
tent we find a record of five Norwegians having been here, 
as follows : 
Roald Amundsen 
Olav Olavson Bjaaland 
Hilmcr Hanssen 
Sverre H. Hassel 
Oscar Wisting. 
16 Dec. 1911. 
The tent is fine — a small compact affair supported by 
a single bamboo. A note from Amundsen, which I keep, 
asks me to forward a letter to King Haakon ! 
The following articles have been left in the tent : 
3 half bags of reindeer containing a miscellaneous assort- 
ment of mits and sleeping socks, very various in description, 
a sextant, a Norwegian artificial horizon and a hypsomctcr 
without boiling-point thermometers, a sextant and hypso- 
meter of English make. 
Left a note to say I had visited the tent with com- 
panions. Bowers photographing and Wilson sketching. 
Since lunch we have marched 6*2 miles S.S.E. by compass 
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