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The Madras force of which one division was sent on at once, the other was to follow shortly consisted of the 41st and 89th Regiments, the Madras European regiment, seven battalions of native infantry, and four batteries of artillery, amounting to 9300 men; making a total of 11475 fighting men, of whom nearly five thousand were Europeans.
"At 8 p.m. the first sledge was finished and the men went straight on with the second. This was finished by midnight, and, having seen the New Year in, we had a fine pemmican hoosh and went to bed." New Year's Day found us in Latitude 87 degrees 7 minutes S. Height, 9300 feet above Barrier a southerly wind, with temperature 14 degrees below zero.
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