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Together with the provisions which we had left in the three depots at the eightieth, the eighty-first, and the eighty-second parallels we had sufficient sustenance for 120 days. Two days after our departure we nearly met with a serious accident. Bjaaland's sled fell into one of the numerous crevasses.
Amundsen had told me on the way up this morning of the heavy sledges they had 165 pounds each. And now Bjaaland was going to bring them down to 48 pounds, less than a third of their original weight. In the snow-walls of the room were fixed hooks and shelves, where the tools were kept. Bjaaland's carpenter's bench was massive enough cut out in the snow and covered with boards.
Now we will go straight through the mass and see whether we come across any more celebrities. There we have Karenius, Sauen, Schwartz, and Lucy; they belong to Stubberud, and are a power in the camp. Bjaaland's tent is close by; his favourites are lying there Kvaen, Lap, Pan, Gorki, and Jaala. They are small, all of them, but fine dogs.
At the critical moment we were fortunately able to come to Bjaaland's aid; had we been a moment later the sled with its thirteen dogs would have disappeared in the seemingly bottomless pit. On the fourth day we reached our depot at 80° S. We remained there two days and gave our dogs as much seal meat as they would eat.
As they arrived at the place where the dogs were, each was surrounded by his team, who followed him to the tents with joyous howls. But everything did not pass off peacefully; I heard I think it was in Bjaaland's tent a deafening noise going on, and looked in at the door. Down there, deep below the surface, they were having a warm time.
On Monday, January 16, work began in earnest. About eighty dogs six teams drove up to the first encampment with all the provisions and equipment that could be loaded on the sledges, and twenty dogs Stubberud's and Bjaaland's teams went with a full load up to the other camp. We had some work indeed, those first days, to get the dogs to obey us.
"Look out for the steps!" Yes, he could be sure of that; I had come one cropper that day, and it was enough. We once more descended into the Barrier by broad, solid snow-steps covered with boards. Suddenly a door was opened a sliding-door in the snow-wall and I stood in Bjaaland's and Stubberud's premises. The place might be about 6 feet high, 15 feet long, and 7 feet wide.
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