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drifting ice. If we are not there, or the ship is unable to get in, it should look for us or for a cairn with record at the southern point of Hooker Island, almost north of Way Island. If all there fail the ship should go on to Cape Tegetthoff, where we believe there is open water almost every year. But all the probabilities are we shall be at Cape Flora, and be there by the middle of July, though the ship should look for us till the first of September or even later if the condition of the ice permits. 

This statement applies to the year 1900 as well as to 1899, in case we do not return next year.