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house on shore, consisting of a wooden frame, for which he used loose 
beams brought with us from Copenhagen, and covered it with the sails. 
The house was spacious enough to accommodate the whole seven of us. 
The work was, however, greatly delayed by bad weather (snowstorms) so 
that JØRGENSEN and UNGER could not move ashore until the 26th of 
March, but at this time there was much water in the cabin, about 
20 cm above the floor. The last three days they had occupied the 
cabin, the water was over the floor. In April the two men endeavoured 
to pump the ship, as they had managed to get one of the pumps 
free and thawed out, but again the result was nil, as the water rose 
constantly, and when my sledging party returned, the ship was lying 
with a list to starboard and with the deck aft from almost up to the 
edge of the main hold under water. 
Respecting the actual wreck, particulars have been given elsewhere, 
so I shall not allude to it, except to express my admiration and re- 
cognition of the splendid services rendered by my two comrades on 
board under the trying circumstances, and this the more when the fact 
is borne in mind that Lieutenant JØRGENSEN was ill, but this he kept 
in the background and worked on deck himself. It should be mentioned 
that when the sledging party left the ship on March 3rd, he was still 
in bed on account of his frostbitten feet. 
Until my party returned, our two comrades were busy every day 
saving as much provisions and other things as possible from the wreck, 
whilst in nowise neglecting to take the necessary meteorological obser- 
vations. 
The period from 28rd of May until arrival 
at Aalesund. 
On my return to “Alabama”, May 23rd 1910, from the great sledging 
tour we found, as previously mentioned, that the “Alabama” was 
wrecked, which disaster had happened on the 13th of March, ten days 
after the departure on the great sledging tour. 
Lieutenant JØRGENSEN and UNGER had both moved ashore into a 
tent which they had built on the shore out of the sails. The day of our 
arrival we simply ate, drank coffee and rested, and not until the 
following day did I make a start with my survey of the “Alabama”, 
the result being that we decided to save as much of the timber as 
possible, so that we could build a house ashore. In order to fully ex- 
plain the condition in which the ship was, when I returned to the 
winter quarters, I subjoin a report of the reasons which induced us to 
condemn the “Alabama”. 
