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Hour after hour passed, while the drill-turners took their places with the sledges, and the sledgers went to the drills the turnabout system of "double-jacking" with Fairchild, the eleventh man, filling in along the line as an extra sledger, that the miners might be the more relieved in their strenuous, frenzied work. Midnight came. The first of the six-foot drills sank to its ultimate depth.
Heigham," said the gentleman, with a benevolent beam, "I think I expressed a wish that we might soon renew our acquaintance, but I little thought under what circumstances our next meeting would take place," and he pointed to the overturned sledges and the prostrate sledgers.
When Scott found that we sledgers were getting temperatures as low as minus forty he decided to discontinue sledging rather than risk anything in the nature of severe frostbite assailing the party and rendering them unfit for further work, for it must be remembered that we had already been away from our base ten weeks, that many of us had never sledged before, and that the depot journey was partly undertaken to give us sledging experience and to point out what improvements could be made in our clothing and equipment.
This was the year that Campbell and his party were looking forward to so eagerly if only they could be successful in landing their gear and equipment in King Edward VII. Land and, for the less showy but more scientific sledgers, 1911 held a wealth of excitement in store.
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