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only contingent upon my failure to return. With 
earnest trust in that same supervising Agency which 
has so often before in graver straits interfered to pro¬ 
tect and carry me through, I have resolved to go after 
Hans. 
“The orders are given. In three hours I will be 
equipped and ready to take advantage of the first 
practicable moment for the start. It makes me write 
gravely; for I am far from well, very far from strong, 
and am obliged to drive our reduced team twice seventy 
miles. The latter half of the journey I shall have to 
do entirely on foot, and our lowest nighfitemperaturcs 
are under—40°. 
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ESQUIMAUX WOMAN'S KNIFE. 
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