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19
Have decided to return
at once. We have not enough
dog food to remain and our
prospects of getting game very
unpromising... If I return
with the little I have it
may furnish us with
enough to explore North
Cornwall, the northern part
of which no one has
visited.
I have the boys build
a cairn out of our biscuit
and Germanian tins while I
got a few rights for
azimuth and longitude.
There is a dead cloud
in the South which might
portend more bad weather.
11 P. M.
20th is strange how
things work out. Two hours
after leaving Friday Land
it began to snow shutting
out our view of all lands.
I thought we were in
for it and could see
all our Germanian taken by
the dogs and our retreat...