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bay. Towards dawn the gale lowered somewhat, 
and we steamed up to a big rock situated about a 
mile to the south-west of the peninsula, and about 
two chains from the perpendicular rock of Cape 
Adare. Through great risk, four sailors in a whale- 
boat succeeded in fastening two wire hawsers and 
an ordinary cable to this rescuing pillar. 
The two Finns were destined to be the first to 
sleep on shore, 
as the gale 
prevented them 
from reaching 
the vessel al- 
though on the 
folowing day 
some Of my 
staff, at a great 
risk, managed to 
reach the land. 
Itis curious that 
these two Lapps 
should happen 
to have been 
the first to inhabit that large southern continent, 
curious because they are natives of the corresponding 
latitudes on the Northern Hemisphere, and because 
they, as children of nature from the north, in a way 
replaced the want of natives in the south. 
The next few days and nights were anxious ones 
for all of us, as well for those on board as for those 
on shore. The vessel lost two anchors, and was 
in imminent danger of being wrecked on the rocks, 
as all three hawsers fixed to the big rock snapped 
MR. BORCHGREVINK AND MR. HANSON 
ON THE TOP OF CAPE ADARE. 
