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searching for a needle in a hay-stack. He told me I 

 must not think that people would be content to sit still 

 and do nothing. In England, at any rate, he was sure 

 that something would be done — and where ought they 

 to go ? " Well," I replied, " I can scarcely think of any 



ARRIVAL AT HAMMERFEST 



other place than Franz Josef Land; for if the Frain 

 goes to the bottom, or we are obliged to abandon her, 

 we must come out that way. If the Fraiu does not go 

 to the bottom, and the drift is as I believe it to be, 

 w^e shall reach the open sea betw-een Spitzbergen and 

 Greenland." Sir Georore now thouorht that the time had 

 come to look for us, and since he could not do more for 



