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Copy of Instructions sent Colonel Aagaard[Aargaard] from Cape Tegetthoff concerning the ship next year.

Our station here is 80 miles east of Cape Flora, thus requiring a change in the statement made in my letter to you as to our probable whereabouts next July.

This is my final statement as to where we are to be found at the end of July next year, or in August.

Probably we shall be at Cape Flora. To get back to that point will be our first aim. The ship should first call there. If we are not at Cape Flora the ship should then try to reach "Old Depot," on the east shore of [[strikethrough]] the British [[Channel]] [/[strikethrough]] De Bruyne Sound, southwest point of Hooker Island, directly north of Etheridge Island. It is possible we will be there, but unable to cross the channel on account of