Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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last heard 22 Jul
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For the ice is opened up during the night.
and the sea is visible upon the horizon.
They argue that Captain Craigie is certainly dead, and that we are all risking our lives to no purpose by remaining when we have an opportunity of escape.
Mr Milne and I have had the greatest difficulty in persuading them to wait until tomorrow night.
and have been compelled to promise that we will not under any circumstances delay our departure longer than that.
We propose, therefore, to take a few hours' sleep and
and then to start upon a final search.
September twentieth, evening.
I crossed the ice this morning with a party of men exploring the southern part of the flow, while Mr Milne went off in a northerly direction.
We pushed on for ten or twelve miles without seeing a trace of any living thing except a single bird.
which fluttered a great way over our heads, and which by its flight I should judge to have been a falcon.
The southern extremity of the ice field tapered away into a long, narrow split
which projected out into the sea.
When we came to the base of this promontory the men halted.
But I begged them to continue to the extreme end of it.
That we might have the satisfaction of knowing that no possible chance had been neglected.
We had hardly gone a hundred yards before MacDonald of Peterhead cried out that he saw something in front of us and began to run.
We all got a glimpse of it and ran too.
At first it was only a vague darkness against the white ice.
But as we raced along together it took the shape of a man, and eventually of the man was
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