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    "ocrText": "- 6 -\nwork was immediately commenced. When the work was well under way\nI selected the five least effective Eskimos for a boat crew leav-\ning the others to assist in working the drill, and taking Profs.\nSalisbury and nyche with me in the whale boat started for C. York\nto await there the arrival of the Ship, It was now so late in the\nseason that the ship once through with the meteors could not afford\nto stop for more than a few hours at C. York, and by thus going\nahead Prof. Salisbury would be given ample time to examine the\nglaciers about C. York and Prof. Dyche have an opportunity to\nobtain more specimens. The trip to C. York was made under con-\nditions more favorable than I had anticipated, the settlement being\no'clock\nreached at 5- the next morning and here we remained until 1 A.M.\nFriday when the Kite arrived having failed in its attempt to re-\nmove a piece of the large meteor owing to the extreme toughness\nof the metal. Nevertheless the results of this second trip to\nthe meteors had been satisfactory beyond my most sanguine expecta-\ntions.\nThe weather and ice conditions could scarcely have been\nmore favorable. The location, size, shape etc. of three meteorites\nhad been determined carefully, and two of them , thanks to the\nabilitysan energy of Mr. Diebitsch had been secured while the ex-\nistence of a fourth had been corroborated and its location ascer-\ntained approximately."
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