Note 2 — Chapter V · A Hard Struggle
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“I begin to think more and more that we ought to turn back before the time we originally fixed.2 It is probably 350 miles or so to Petermann’s Land (in point of fact it was about 450 miles to Cape Fligely); but it will probably take us all we know to get over them. The question resolves itself into this: Ought we not, at any rate, to reach 87° N.? But I doubt whether we can manage it if the ice does not improve.