and I rowed to the place where last he had been seen, but 
without finding a trace of the dog. After searching widely 
and vainly without faintest sign of Napoleon, we were forced 
to weigh anchor and leave him behind. 
Before leaving Jan Mayen we landed our bos’n and two 
men, together with a large quantity of provisions. The three 
were to spend the winter trapping, as well as taking meteor¬ 
ological observations in the interest of the Norwegian Govern- 
After all, to confess it—now that the end was at hand— 
we were glad that we were really returning. 
As some one has said: “With the coming of the dark and 
the passing of the ice, the Arctics had lost their charm.” 
On the 26th the ocean lay quiet and calm, and we steamed 
on, making good progress. A fresh westerly gale springing Au g 26th 
up next day enabled us to take advantage of full spread of 
canvas, and we boomed along merrily, making full eleven 
knots during watches. 
"Note.—Later we learned from Tromsoe that, owing to the Laura being badly ice¬ 
bound in the Greenland pack that following year, while under charter to a German 
nobleman, the Friibjof was sent out, as relief expedition, to call at Jan Mayen for the 
men. After picking them up, she was beset by ice in a storm and sank, with all but 
one of her seventeen hands. By queer play of fate, moreover, the Laura escaped this 
ice and called at Jan Mayen not forty-eight hours after the relief-ship’s departure. 
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