It was made following a sleepless night in a cold igloo.

For all that my clothes were wet with perspiration, my jaw and head throbbed and burned incessantly, though toward the end of the march I began to feel the effects of the quinine I had taken, and not long after we reached the captain's igloo the worst of the symptoms had departed.

But it was hard drilling that day, and our troubles were in no way lessened by the fact that the dogs seemed utterly without energy or spirit.
The beautiful weather which had accompanied us for several days still continued on the next day.

It was really a surprising stretch of splendid weather.

We marched six hours, then stopped for luncheon, and then drilled along for six hours more.