CHAPTER XII 
OUR HOME AT SHIPWRECK CAMP 
The point where the Karluk went down was hard 
by the place where the Jeannette of the De Long 
expedition was frozen in the ice and began her west¬ 
ward drift to a point off Henrietta Island, where 
she was crushed, in much the same manner as the 
Karluk , by the opening and closing of the ice, and 
sank June 12, 1881. 
As I study the map of the polar regions and see 
how we drifted from a point near the 145th merid¬ 
ian to a point near the 175th meridian, west longi¬ 
tude, and how the Jeannette drifted from a point 
near the 175th meridian, west longitude, to a point 
near the 155th meridian, east longitude, and then 
how the Fram drifted from a point near the 140th 
meridian, east longitude, to a point near the 10th 
meridian, east longitude, and realize that the sum 
of these three drifts embraces more than half the 
distance around the continental periphery, I can 
not help coming to the conclusion that the idea of 
casks and wreckage drifting across the Pole from 
the waters of Alaska and Siberia to the Green¬ 
land Sea opposite is a mistaken one. Wreckage 
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