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South!

CHAPTER IV
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The arrangement of the tents has been completed and their internal management settled.
Each tent has a mess orderly, the duty being taken in turn on an alphabetical rota.

The orderly takes the hoosh-pots of his tent to the galley, gets all the hoosh he is allowed, and, after the meal, cleans the vessels with snow and stores them in sledge or boat ready for a possible move." "October 29 .-- We passed a quiet night, although the pressure was grinding around us.

Our floe is a heavy one and it withstood the blows it received.

There is a light wind from the north-west to north-north- west, and the weather is fine.

We are twenty-eight men with forty-nine dogs, including Sue's and Sallie's five grown-up pups.


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