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South!

CHAPTER XIII
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We hope we can get him in.

He is getting all he wants to eat.

So he ought." The conditions of travel changed the next day.

A southerly wind made possible the use of the sail, and the trouble was to prevent the sledge bounding ahead over rough sastrugi and capsizing.

The handling of ropes and the sail caused many frost-bites, and occasionally the men were dragged along the surface by the sledge.


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