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MARK had come to Bass Rock in search of provisions, a week after UNGER 
and I had been there in June. At this time the crew of the “7de Juni”, 
originally consisting of six hands, had been considerably reduced, one 
man having died in March, whilst two others were down with scurvy. 
He therefore resolved, as soon as the ice broke up, to try to get to 
Shannon Island with his ship, so as to get into touch with us, to 
whom he would thus bring assistance, whilst in return getting a crew 
for his ship. 
Before the “7de Juni” went north to Shannon Island from Sabine 
Island, she had on the 21st of July been down to Clavering Island, and 
there she had fallen in with the Norwegian three-masted steam schooner 
“Laura” of Tromso, which ship heard of our plight from Capt. 
LANDMARK, and her captain then had decided to try to reach us, sailing 
at once northward to Shannon Island, which, however, they did not 
reach. 
The “7de Juni” remained some days longer at Clavering Island to load 
skins and provisions, and afterwards they went north, being helped by the 
lend water, so that they made Bass Rock early in the morning of 27th of 
July. On their arrival they observed that no one had called at the 
depot since their previous visit on June 20th, so they sailed further on 
in a northerly direction to the Shannon depot, which they made after 
a four hours’ sail in open water. 
An arrangement was subsequently made with Capt. LANDMARK to 
take us home, according to which we were to make ourselves useful 
on board; only Lieutenant JØRGENSEN was to be exempted from duty, 
as he had not yet quite recovered. I clearly pointed out to Capt. 
LanpMARK that I could not promise him any remuneration whatever 
or any compensation, not knowing what attitude the committee would 
adopt in the matter. He generously replied that, as far as he was 
concerned, no reward would be expected, he being only too happy 
to assist, whilst he also obtained some hands to work the ship. 
Moreover he undertook to remain a week at the Shannon depot, 
— unless the ice conditions compelled him to go away earlier. This ar- 
rangement was made, because I was not in a position to inform him 
definitely, as to how long it would take for us to send a message to our 
winter quarters. To get through with a ship along the east coast of Shannon 
Island to our winter quarters was impossible at that period on account 
of the thick, heavy ice. Capt. LANDMARK and I had thought of trying 
to do so, as we could thus take a much larger quantity of our 
possessions home, but we had to abandon the idea again, after we had 
reconnoitred along the east coast to find out the chances of successful 
navigation. 
On the same evening — July 27th — UNGER and I then sledged away 
to our winter quarters, in order to bring the news to our three com- 
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