NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



the rescue, but of course without learning whether 

 the Morrissey had been able to get off the reef. 

 On reaching Holstensborg Governor Bistrup ad- 

 vised delay until his motor-schooner Walrus could 

 go in to our camp and learn from us whether we 

 had received by radio any later information. 



From his intercepted messages Oscanyan was 

 able to advise the Governor that the Morrissey had 

 got off the reef shortly after midnight on the 22nd. 

 His message had read, "Afloat and pumps have 

 water under control. We are bound for Upernivik 

 and are off Cape York. — Putnam." With this in- 

 formation the Captain of the Islundsh Folk set his 

 course for Upernivik where the Moiiissey arrived 

 and was beached for repairs, after a difficult pas- 

 sage, in which the pumps were kept going almost 

 continuously. With the aid of a diving suit carried 

 on the Islandsk Folk the larger openings in the 

 hull of the Morrissey were closed so that she was 

 able to proceed. 



It was only later that this news reached us at 

 the camp on the Maligiakf jord, after we had much 

 time to reflect upon how we should get back to 

 civilization if the Morrissey should be wrecked or 

 was seriously disabled. The last vessel to return to 

 Copenhagen before the season closed would leave 

 Holstensborg about the time when we had expected 



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