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On the morning of January 29, 1861, Captain Cliffe at dinner told me that our position by dead reckoning -- he had not been able to obtain an observation for two days -- was latitude 58° 30´ S., longitude 45° W. I pulled out my note-book on hearing this and started violently.
'Good God, Cliffe! ' cried I, 'do you know that we are within a mile or two of the place where the "Lady Emma" was abandoned by her crew?'