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zigzag course, depending mainly upon the wind and were, at the 
beginning of September, 1923, in latitude 76° 17’ north, being east 
of De Long Islands. We hoped to drift on the northern side of these 
islands and perhaps cross to Spitzbergen along a route more north- 
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erly than the one taken by the /vam during the famous drift of 
Doctor Nansen, 1893 to 1896. However, continuous northerly winds 
carried us 100 miles to the south. The winter of 1923-24 was spent 
in latitude 75° north, to the southward of De Long Islands. At 
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