[Guadeloupe, Saint Vincent, 'Cluett' Voyage] 1915-1916
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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