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Report concerning the remaining part of the expedition. 177 
We returned to Bass Rock the same night, and continued our journey 
northwards to the Shannon depot on the following night. At both of 
these places we left reports for our committee in Copenhagen, besides 
the subjoined open letter, written in English. It ran thus: 
п} 1910 Bass Rock. 
To whom it may concern: 
Any person calling at this depot is requested to bring this letter 
home with him and forward it to its destination. He is also requested 
to get into touch with the members of the “Alabama Expedition” who, 
having lost their ship, are at their winter quarters and desire, if pos- 
sible, to return home with you. The “Alabama” went down in March 
this year. 
(sign.) W. LauB. 
Second in command. 
On Wednesday the 15th of June at 8 p.m. we were back at Ala- 
bama Havn without having encountered anything worth mentioning. 
But we noticed a considerable difference in the ice during the fort- 
night we had been away, it now being very heavy going for the sledge, 
whilst in many places it was full of fissures and open lakes, so that it 
took us double the time to cross Frozen Bay. 
The three men remaining by the ship had spent their time in getting 
as much material as possible ashore from the “Alabama”, so that on 
June 21st UNGER was able to start building the house, in which there 
was provided proper sleeping accommodation for all the seven men. At 
the same time two of our party were always on the prowl after game, and 
although the result cannot be regarded as brilliant we now and then got 
some hares and lapwings, but we saw no traces of musk ox. They 
were not seen by us until the 26th of July, when I myself came across 
а herd of seven animals consisting of six fully grown and one calf. 
This was during my stay at the Shannon depot, when I went out for 
the purpose of getting hold of a couple of hares, and had therefore 
taken only a few ordinary cartridges with me, which were of no use 
whatever against big game, so that I had to return with my errand 
unaccomplished. 
We saw nothing whatever of these animals during the last days 
we spent on Shannon Island, but there must have been a number of 
them about, as Capt. MIKKELSEN and IVERSEN during the two years 
they spent on the island shot a lot of them. 
The time when there was a possibility of a vessel coming in to one 
of the depots was now approaching, and I considered it advisable to 
have two men stationed at the Shannon depot. Should a ship touch at 
Bass Rock I felt sure that she, after having found the open letter depo- 
sited there, would go north to the Shannon depot to investigate 
whether there were any further particulars there. Lieutenant JORGEN- 
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