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with her chin, but when she found
it getting cold she slowly walked
out of her shelter toward the team
kitched some distance away. I
called her back, tied her and buried
the dead. This morning there were
two others stiff with cold by her side.
she had evidently paid
no attention to them at all.
On the march she dropped
another which I saw away back
in the snow. Yelled to Lily to stop
his team and ran back to get it.
Could not help it warm on the
sledge so put it in on my breast.
Twice I lost it out in the snow,
it kept crawling around and around
my body and went out through the
back of my anion seat. Finally I
got out my sewing kit and sewed
up all holes. I thought then it
would smother as I was working
hard and sweating.
We covered two marches
walking for 12 3/4 hours nearly every
step of the ways in snow shoes,
as we approached our old camp
at head of Bay Lord we saw a
white wolf, his seals and a