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		<title>Thursday, December 21st 1911</title>
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		<title>Wednesday, December 20th 1911</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camp 42. 6500 feet about. Just got off our last best half march &#8211; 10 miles 1150 yards (geo.), over 12 miles stat. With an afternoon to follow we should do well to-day; the wind has been coming up the valley. Turning this book seems to have brought luck. We marched on till nearly 7 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday, December 19th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 1911 13:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lunch, rise 650. Dist. 8 1/2 geo. Camp 41. Things are looking up. Started on good surface, soon came to very annoying criss-cross cracks. I fell into two and have bad bruises on knee and thigh, but we got along all the time until we reached an admirable smooth ice surface excellent for travelling. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday, December 18th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 1911 13:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camp 40. Lunch nearly 4000 feet above Barrier. Overcast and snowing this morning as I expected, land showing on starboard hand, so, though it was gloomy and depressing, we could march, and did. We have done our 8 stat. miles between 8.20 and 1 P.M.; at first fairly good surface; then the ice got very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, December 17th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 1911 00:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camp 39. Soon after starting we found ourselves in rather a mess; bad pressure ahead and long waves between us and the land. Blue ice showed on the crests of the waves; very soft snow lay in the hollows. We had to cross the waves in places 30 feet from crest to hollow, and we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday, December 16th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 1911 00:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camp 38. A gloomy morning, clearing at noon and ending in a gloriously fine evening. Although constantly anxious in the morning, the light held good for travelling throughout the day, and we have covered 11 miles (stat.), altering the aspect of the glacier greatly. But the travelling has been very hard. We started at 7, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, December 15th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 1911 00:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camp 37. (Height about 2500. Lat. about 84º 8&#8242;.) Got away at 8; marched till 1; the surface improving and snow covering thinner over the blue ice, but the sky overcast and glooming, the clouds ever coming lower, and Evans&#8217; is now decidedly the slowest unit, though Bowers&#8217; is not much faster. We keep up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, December 14th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 1911 00:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camp 36. Indigestion and the soggy condition of my clothes kept me awake for some time last night, and the exceptional exercise gives bad attacks of cramp. Our lips are getting raw and blistered. The eyes of the party are improving, I am glad to say. We are just starting our march with no very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, December 13th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 1911 00:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camp 35. A most damnably dismal day. We started at eight &#8211; the pulling terribly bad, though the glide decidedly good; a new crust in patches, not sufficient to support the ski, but without possibility of hold. Therefore, as the pullers got on the hard patches they slipped back. The sledges plunged into the soft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday, December 12th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 1911 23:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camp 34. We have had a hard day, and during the forenoon it was my team which made the heaviest weather of the work. We got bogged again and again, and, do what we would, the sledge dragged like lead. The others were working hard but nothing to be compared to us. At 2.30 I [...]]]></description>
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