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members of the expedition respecting the measures to be adopted as 
regards the ship, and they have drawn up the following. 
(Signed) WILHELM LAUB. 
The undersigned hereby certify that they are cognisant of the con- 
tents of the foregoing and that we are not able at present nor shall we 
be able with the appliances at our disposal to put the “Alabama” into 
a seaworthy condition, and we, therefore, regard it as most feasible, in 
view of possibly passing another winter here, to take so much timber 
from the ship as will enable us to build a house ashore. 
(Sig.) C. H. JORGENSEN. Hans P. OLSEN. 
GEORG POULSEN. C. UNGER. 
We immediately started to save the timber from the ship, whilst 
also making preparations for another sledging trip. 
Before Captain MIKKELSEN and I started off simultaneously from 
the “Alabama” on March 3rd, I had been requested by him оп my return 
to the winter quarters to draw up a report for the Committee and place 
a copy of same in the depot at Bass Rock and in the depot at the SE 
point of Shannon, Cape Philip Broke. Also I was to try to reach the 
Tyrolfjord, especially to investigate this and Clavering Island, lying in 
the fjord. Lieutenant JØRGENSEN was to undertake this tour, if his 
feet were so much better that he could stand the hardships of a sledge 
trip. But although, when I got back, he was out of bed and could 
walk about, he was still not well enough to stand the trip, and I 
made up my mind to undertake it myself, choosing as companion 
UNGER, who had not been away for some time. Moreover, we were 
enjoined to lay down a depot for Capt. MIKKELSEN on the mainland 
at Hochstetter Forland in a spot lying true west of the NW point of 
Shannon Island, this depot being intended to supplement those laid 
down in the spring along the east coast to the north. 
On account of the disaster which had happened to the “Alabama” 
I had, moreover, resolved to place in the aforesaid depots, besides 
the official reports, open letters for any travellers who might per- 
chance come, so that they might become aware of the condition of the 
“Alabama”, and we might thereby get a chance of being taken home. 
I was loth to return without having any news from Capt. MIKKEL- 
SEN, but as matters stood and according to the instructions of the 
Committee § 4, together with the orders given to me by Capt. MIKKELSEN 
to return after August 1st, if he had not by that time returned to the 
winter quarters, I considered it the right thing for us five members of 
the expedition to get back, should opportunity offer. In Capt. MIKKEL- 
SEN’s orders to me he states that if the ice conditions are good, I am to 
wait until August 15th, but not without having consulted the other mem- 
bers of the expedition. Also I was guided by the thought that Capt. 
