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light conjecture; but it was enough to turn the scale, 
for there was no other to balance it. I gave orders to 
abandon the sledge, and disperse in search of foot¬ 
marks. We raised our tent, placed our pemmican in 
cache, except a small allowance for each man to carry 
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on his person; and poor Ohlsen, now just able to keep 
his legs, was liberated from his bag. The thermometer 
had fallen by this time to —49°.3, and the wind was 
setting in sharply from the northwest. It was out of 
the question to halt: it required brisk exercise to keep 
us from freezing. I could not even melt ice for water; 
and, at these temperatures, any resort to snow for the 
