Chapter 21 THE JOURNEY OF EGERTON AND RAWSON.

"You were used to say,

Extremity was the trier of spirits,

That common chances common men could bear,

That when the sea was calm, all boats alike

Showed mastership in floating."

Shakespeare.

It was a part of Captain Nares's scheme for the spring campaign that, before the departure of the extended parties, a dog sledge should be de

            
            

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