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regretfully we put out before daybreak on the morn- 

 ing of September eighteenth with our passengers 

 aboard, and turned the Jeanie's prow toward St. 

 Johns, Newfoundland. 



That evening we passed Resolution Island, crossed 

 Hudson Straits in the night, and the following morn- 

 ing had our first view of the Labrador coast ; on the 

 twenty-third we ran into Indian Harbor, the first 

 point where wireless communication could be had with 

 the outside world. A strong head wind held us at 

 Indian Harbor until the morning of the twenty-fifth, 

 when with reefed mainsail we began the final run 

 to St. Johns. We were now dependent entirely upon 

 the sails, as the Jeanie's engine had been disabled be- 

 yond repair. 



I shall not attempt to describe my sensations as the 

 Jeanie entered the land-locked harbor of St. Johns 

 and I finally stepped ashore to find myself again in 

 civilization. This was September twenty-eighth, 

 1909. On the night of July seventeenth, 1908, 1 had 

 boarded the Erik in Sydney Harbor, and for more 

 than fourteen months I had been cut off from the 

 world. 



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