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South!

CHAPTER IX
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Running water made a musical sound down the tussock slope and among the boulders.

We carried our blankets up the hill and tried to dry them in the breeze 300 ft.

above sea-level.

In the afternoon we began to prepare the 'James Caird' for the journey to the head of King Haakon Bay.

A noon observation on this day gave our latitude as 54ー 10エ 47エエ S., but according to the German chart the position should have been 54ー 12エ S.Probably Worsley's observation was the more accurate.


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