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and the dogs rush onwards and upwards in the same way,
until a sharp voice yells out in front: “Stop! Stop!”
The whole caravan stops, we jump from our sledges and
run to the spot. Here is a business with a vengeance!
The sledge is all in pieces, and the things loaded on it
are scattered far and wide over the ice! I become nervous,
but the natives, as tranquil as if nothing had happened,
set to work repairing the sledge by means of a primitive
drill, making a hole here and another one there and
binding together the broken parts with leather thongs,
while others with axes and iron-pointed poles are cutting
out a way for the caravan over the torosses. In half
an hour the expedition is again on its way. Other chains
of torosses are crossed in the same manner more or
less successfully, and our journey over the sea on the
whole goes quickly and well.
Towards noon we were enveloped in a heavy
snowstorm, but the ice became smoother, and the dogs ran
onwards at great speed. Only once did we take a short
rest, sitting down in a circle on the ice and regaling ourselves
with frozen fish, while the dogs fed beside us on the same
delicacy. In places where the wind had swept away the
snow, the crystallised salt, precipitated from the ice by
the cold, made the driving very heavy.
Nearing the mainland in the afternoon, the snowstorm
ceased, leaving the view of the country clear. Towards
the south-east and south extended a mountain chain falling
abruptly into the sea, diminishing in height to the west.
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