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of incident. The land-ice was travelled for a while at 
the rate of five or six miles an hour; hut, after crossing 
Dobbin Bay, the snows were an unexpected impedi¬ 
ment, and the ice-foot was so clogged that they made 
but fifteen miles from camp to camp on the floes. After 
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fixing the position of Cape Sabine, and connecting it 
with the newly-discovered coashline to the north and 
east, he prepared to cross the bay farther to the south. 
Most providentially they found this passage free 
from bergs; but their provisions were nearly gone, and 
their dogs were exhausted. They threw away their 
sleeping-bags, which were of reindeer-skin and weighed 
