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South!

CHAPTER II
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All the fit dogs were being exercised in the sledges, and they took to the work with enthusiasm.
Sometimes their eagerness to be off and away produced laughable results, but the drivers learned to be alert.

The wireless apparatus was still rigged, but we listened in vain for the Saturday-night time signals from New Year Island, ordered for our benefit by the Argentine Government.

On Sunday the 28th, Hudson waited at 2 a.m.for the Port Stanley monthly signals, but could hear nothing.

Evidently the distances were too great for our small plant..


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