THE RESCUE 



over Davis Strait they saw clouds running up to 

 10,000 or 12,000 feet. Before passing into the 

 clouds Cramer, the navigator, had dropped a flare, 

 and finding the wind light from the southeast, he 

 had made a correction to the course, which was set 

 for the Knud Rasmussen ice-arm, of two degrees 

 to the right. They learned later that in the clouds 

 the wind was blowing a small gale from the oppo- 

 site quarter and this had carried them during the 

 crossing nearly two hundred miles off their course 

 and down the shore to the southward. 



On reaching the Greenland coast they at once 

 came out of the clouds, and seeing an ice-arm off to 

 the right they supposed it to be the Knud Ras- 

 mussen ice-arm toward which they had set their 

 course. They then began searching for the fjord- 

 mouth while circling over Fiskenaesset on Sunday 

 morning at church time. They soon found what 

 seemed to them to be the fjord-mouth, for fjords 

 are nearly everywhere on the Greenland southwest 

 coast, but on ascending this fjord they found it 

 not 120 miles long, but only twenty miles. This 

 showed them clearly their error and now from the 

 map they were able to identify the ice-arm which 

 was in view as the Frederikshaab Isblink in far 

 southern Greenland. 



They had now found their position, but they 



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