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made it difficult to keep the away - [17]
[illegible] motor boat from checking the mo-
mentum of the little row boat. At
first two of the men rowed while
one steered, taking turns at the oars,
but soon Hendrik became so sea-
sick that he was of no further use
and Peter and Sigdler had to do
all the rowing. We were off Cape
Chalon when the engine went
out of commission, and the men
kept at their grueling work for
six long hours before we came
to anchor in the darkness of mid-
Silwardi
night at Sarfjok near Childs Gla-
cier in Sonntag Bay, the body of
water which caused the death of Dr.
Hayes's astronomer in 1861. The
evening had been beautiful, but
none of us had enjoyed it much