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the rough ice, the sick men and the weakening doga, it took us
sixteen days to get ashore. when we landed we had half rations
for the men for six days and a half rations for the dogs (consist-
ing mainly of new skin clothing) for six days also. We were
still five hundred and fifty miles from the nearest human beings,
so that out lives could be saved only by success in
hunting.