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102 Thomas and Eric Hedon must have come if they now were alive.

"There is where we took to the sea ice again to sledge south." Koehler pointed out another cape.

They came to it and kicked upon the ground the rusted cans emptied there and left by the four men two years before.

"We came down that shore with sledges," Brunton told in greater detail, motioning with his arms. As he glanced far ahead suddenly he stared and stooped.

"What is it?" Geoff asked, and then looked at Latham who had halted and already had his glasses to his eyes. Far up the bare shore a speck of white showed; and the others now saw it also.

"A skeleton!" Latham decided.

"What?"

Latham handed his glasses to Koehler. The doctor too made out the whitened bones.

"A man's?" asked Geoff.

"Can't tell. Animal's probably."

"Of course."

But as they went on now the four doubled