THE JOURNEY SOUTHWARD 



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sun burst through the clouds above Cape Flora we 

 waved our hats, and sent our last cheer as a farewell to 

 the six men standing like a little dark spot on the floe 

 in that great icy solitude ; and under full sail and steam 

 we set out on August 7th, with a fair wind, over the un- 

 dulating surface of the ocean, towards the south. 



Fortune favored us. On her northward voyage the 

 Windzuard had much and difficult ice to combat with 



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CAPE FLORA. FAREWELL TO FRANZ JOSEF LAND 



before she at last broke throuQ-h and came in to land. 

 Now, too, we met a quantity of ice, but it was slack and 

 comparatively easy to get through. We were stopped 

 in a few places, and had to break a way through 



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