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are able to take the ship north from Flora I will not leave any one there, but make our supply station at the farthest point the ship can reach.

We are out for the Pole this time, and will do our best. The only man I am afraid of is Sundrup, who has gone to Greenland in the [[Fram?]]. He says he is [[?]] up for the Pole, but I believe he is. There is a bare possibility we shall be out two years, though I hope not. For your sake and the family's if not for my own I want to get through next year and return home.

The longer I am away from wife and children the 

Transcription Notes:
Name of Sundrup's ship is hard to read, and words at fold are illegible.