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with lots of drift-wood lying about it; here we 

 agreed to pass the night, and I set about gathering 

 the materials for a fire, and commenced to pluck 

 the geese, while Kennedy walked to the top of a 

 neighboring rocky eminence to take one more look 

 for the yacht. After a while I saw him with my 

 glass beckoning to me ; so, concluding that he had 

 discovered her, I took up the geese and joined him, 

 when I also saw the yacht's topmasts, but still a 

 long way off — above a snug little rock-encompassed 

 cove, where she was perfectly sheltered and almost 

 hidden. We got on board about 4 A.M., not sorry 

 to exchange broiled goose and a bed on the rocks 

 for a supper of reindeer cutlets, with hot brandy 

 and water, and comfortable cots. 



24:th. While we were asleep the crew got the an- 

 chor up, and sailed down to where we had left the 

 sloop. Our intention being to go in quest of deer 

 up Wybe Jan's Water, where there was not now 

 much chance of ice, we left the slow-sailing sloop in 

 the anchorage at the Russian huts, and took out of 

 her the two servants and a portion of our kits ; also 

 Christian and Johann, with the two walrus-boats 

 and tackle, in case we should unexpectedly fall in 

 with walruses or seals. We then ran up the fiord 

 before a slashing breeze at ten or eleven knots an 

 hour, a rate of speed which seemed to us little short 

 of miraculous, after the performances of the "Anna 

 Louisa." 



The yacht's crew were all in good health and 



