182 WILHELM LAUB. 
to this I had consulted Capt. LANDMARK at about nine in the morning, 
when the ice began to look nasty, as to whether we were justified in 
proceeding further north, especially out of regard to the two sick 
men he had on board, but he, an experienced arctic sailor, thought 
there was no risk connected with it. 
Until we were stopped by the ice we had kept the motor running, 
there being a fresh northerly breeze, but as we were now going south 
Capt. LANDMARK stopped it, and we ran along under canvas only. 
The ice became closer, and after only half on hour’s sail we were 
shut in by the ice which closed a channel leading southward under 
our very noses. | 
Thus closed in we drifted slowly towards the south along the 
east coast of Shannon Island, and we did not escape the ice until the 
night between the 6th and 7th of August, off the depot at Саре Philip 
Broke, which we reached at 7.15 p.m. on Aug. 7th. 
During our stay in the ice we had suffered some damage through 
ice pressures, whereby the blades of the propeller were bent and the 
rudder split, but the damage to both was speedily repaired, the latter 
especially with UNGER’s assistance. 
Arrived at the depot I went ashore to see if anyone had been there 
during our absence which, however, did not appear to be the case, and 
then, after having shipped some provisions and inspected the motor, 
we left Shannon Island finally at 10.30 p.m. on August 7th. 
In order to prevent any misunderstanding if any ships should come 
from Bass Rock, where Capt. LANDMARK had left my open letter with 
the endorsement on it that he would try to make the Shannon depot, 
the open letter left at this depot was destroyed, and the following 
communication deposited in its place, as the possibility of the “Laura” 
arriving was still present to my mind. 
Shannon Island 7 Aug. 1910. 
To possible callers at the depot: 
Any caller here is requested to bring home the communication 
deposited here and forward it to the addressee. 
Should the party in question have come from Bass Rock depot, he 
will have learnt that Capt. LANDMARK of the galeas “7de Juni” of 
Aalesund has left there to pick up the members of the Alabama expe- 
dition, who went on board on the 2nd of August. In the interval 
between 2nd and 7th of August the galeas has been sailing north- 
wards, in order to try to make “Alabama Harbour”, but was stopped 
by solid ice, and became ice-bound. At “Alabama Harbour”, the 
position of which is marked upon the map on the wall and where a 
flagstaff has been put up and a house built, will be found provisions 
for seven men for a year besides a lot of fuel, about 1000 litres of 
petrol and some clothing (worn). 
