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little interest to be taken even to the landing field 

 which we had so carefully made ready for them. 

 This is, of course, in part explained by the fact 

 that with the best arrangements we could make, 

 they would have between two and three miles to 

 walk over a rough trail, and Cramer's feet were 

 covered with blisters, while both men with great 

 difficulty made the climb to Mount Evans. More- 

 over, they were convinced that when the attempt 

 was repeated to fly across Greenland to Europe it 

 must be with an amphibian plane which would 

 permit of landing while en route to Greenland, 

 and especially on the Labrador coast before pass- 

 ing out into the cloudy region of Davis Strait. 



The search for Hassell and Cramer which the 

 Danish Government had been generously conduct- 

 ing now for nearly a fortnight, had made it ex- 

 tremely difficult for us to charter a motor sloop to 

 get ourselves to Holstensborg. These boats were 

 either still engaged in the search, back again in 

 the halibut fishing, or on special duties necessary 

 to make up for so much time that had been lost. 

 Nearly every coast colony had used up its supply 

 of motor fuel, and it was necessary for me to 

 provide a supply of kerosene for fuel on the re- 

 turn journey of the sloop, which fortunately we 

 were able to do. At last Governor Bistrup at 



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