SHIPWRECKED 



more effectively, carrying up our things to a better 

 place above high tide. 



Everything that had not been taken out and 

 placed on the deck was now under water in the 

 sloop and the tide was fast rising, for we had struck 

 at extreme low tide. We had however, worked like 

 beavers and it was in the gray of the dawn that 

 we had most of our personal belongings on shore 

 though badly soaked in salt water. We could 

 now crouch around a primus stove and have an 

 early breakfast of erbswurst and sausages. As 

 we huddled about our cooking pot feeling the 

 cheer that comes from hot soup on a raw morning, 

 Hassell generously remarked that I had had good 

 luck with the expeditions until he joined; and as 

 if to drive home the point Cramer added that this 

 was the fifth wreck since they had started the 

 flight project. There was, first, a crack-up while 

 they were trying out the plane in Iowa; a second 

 crack-up occurred at Clarion, Pennsylvania; then 

 there was, third, the crash at the first take-off in 

 Rockf ord ; fourth, the disaster to the plane on the 

 inland-ice; and now, fifth, our shipwreck. Thus 

 catalogued the recital was quite impressive. 



As it was now getting lighter I climbed up to a 

 lookout point from which I could make out the 

 wedge-shaped island mountain which like a stop- 



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