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seem, we ought to arrive at the Ice Barrier about the 

 middle of January, 1911. As will be seen later, this 

 was realized with remarkable exactness. For reaching 

 Madeira we had allowed a month as a reasonable time. 

 We did a good deal better than this, as we were able to 

 leave Funchal a month to the day after our departure 

 from Christiansand. We were always ready to forgive 

 the estimate when it was at fault in this way. 



The delay to which we had been subjected in the 

 English Channel was fortunately made up along the 

 coast of Spain and to the south of it. The north wind 

 held until we were in the north-east trade, and then we 

 were all right. On September 5 our observations at 

 noon told us that we might expect to see the lights that 

 evening, and at 10 p.m. the light of San Lorenzo on the 

 little island of Fora, near Madeira, was reported from 

 the rigging. 



