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RENSSELAER HAR30R. 
CHAPTER X. 
APPROACHING WINTER — STORING PROVISIONS-BUTLER STORE¬ 
HOUSE— SUNDAY AT REST-BUILDING OBSERVATORY — TRAIN¬ 
ING THE DOGS-THE LITTLE WILLIE-TIIE ROAD — THE FAITH 
— SLEDGING — RECONNOISSANCE — DEPOT PARTY. 
The winter was now approaching rapidly. The 
thermometer had fallen by the 10th of September to 
14°, and the young ice had cemented the floes so that 
we could walk and sledge round the brig. About sixty 
paces north of us an iceberg had been caught, and was 
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