F.As the rays of the sun partly melted the snow in the course of the day, the animals could at least get a meagre meal.

On January 15th a cup of water froze inside of my tent, but during the day we had 57 deg.

F.
We soon found out that in the river Gabilan, some four miles south of our camp, there were immense quantities of fish, which had come up to spawn.

No one ever interfered with them, and their number was simply overwhelming.

As the task of feeding thirty men in these wild regions was by no means a trifling one, I resolved to procure as many fish as possible, and to this end resorted to the cruel but effective device of killing them by dynamite.