from running away. He does not seem to realize yet, though he ought to by now, how little I know about a dog team. Crossed tracks of a long train — made day before yesterday K says I — at small one made yesterday at six o'clock we stopped beside a little grove. We had have pitched our tent on its bush. It has been a long day for me but I think that I have stood it very well. K does not think much of my powers as a leader — and they do not much come up to the mark required for sledging work. He says that we are now half way to Tunguska and he asked me whether I want to go on or turn back. I would go on of course — this I think that he will like to turn back. We have traveled much on new ice today in a curious sense.