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dashed over rocks many beautiful ice formations helped to
make the scene more beautiful.  We soon reached our
camp, built a fire and placed our soups (for we had 2
kinds) near it to warm.  The sun was shining beautifully
and our camp is so protected, that we soon found our overcoats
unnecessary, in fact, we thought surely it had again
become much warmer, later, on leaving our camp we found that
this was not the decided change we had been led to suspect.
Our soups being warmed, although rather early, it not being 12 o'clock,
we thought we would eat and start work afterwards.
While eating we were surprised by the visit of a little gray
squirrel, he was very shy though and simply said "how do you
do" and scampered away.  After dinner we put the zinc roof
on our house.  It was while at this work that we were interrupted 
by a passer-by; he, however, seemed not to have noticed
us and passed on through the ravine.  One of our boards had
<s>become</s> been split lengthwise in half while in transit, we stretched
the zinc and nailed it lengthwise along the edges of these
two pieces by this means we covered an area fully 4 feet square.
The other board was broken in <s>half</s> two pieces & and with them we covered the
        