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Vardo, Norway, July 16.
My dear brother: you will be surprised no doubt, to get this letter from me.  I am myself surprised at being able to send it to you. We left Archangel July 4, as I wrote you, & made a good passage northward to the ice, finding it at Lt-77, Lang. 50E, about 170 miles from Cape Flora.  There was a great deal of ice, and a fog which had hung for days.  We went along the ice to the west for some distance, & found it all the same. It was plain that nothing could be done for a week or two, & the Captain told me we were running low on our coal supply.  Instead of 150 tons aboard then, as we should have had, the supply