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easier sledging. Our experience proves, I think, that 
the transit of this broken area must be most impeded 
as we approach the glacier. The immense discharge 
of icebergs cannot fail to break it up seriously for 
travel. 
“ I gave him the small sledge which was built by Mr. 
Ohlsen. The snow was sufficiently thawed to make it 
almost unnecessary to use fire as a means of obtaining 
water: they could therefore dispense with tallow or 
THE TEAM. 
alcohol, and were able to carry pemmican in larger 
quantities. Their sleeping-bags were a very neat arti¬ 
cle of a light reindeer-skin. The dogs were in excel¬ 
lent condition too, no longer foot-sore, but well rested 
and completely broken, including the four from the 
Esquimaux, animals of great power and size. Two 
of these, the stylish leaders of the team, a span of 
thoroughly wolfish iron-grays, have the most powerful 
and wild-beastrlike bound that I have seen in animals 
of their kind. 
