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A grand opportunity was lost: there can be no doubt that, if Captain Evensen had been free, he would here have had a chance of achieving even better work than he did bold, capable, and enterprising as he is. The next whaling expedition to make its mark in the South Polar regions is that of the Antarctic, under Captain Leonard Kristensen.
The others Jan Peter, and Katrinus, and Bernt Johan Jakobsen and Petter Evensen they thought nothing; but to bring the police into a respectable work-yard! He had better get work in some other place after this! For the first moment Nikolai had only one sensation the paralysing fear by which a first acquaintance with the police is always accompanied.
In November, 1894, Captain Evensen in the Hertha succeeded in approaching nearer to Alexander I. Land than either Bellingshausen or Biscoe. But the search for whales claimed his attention, and he considered it his duty to devote himself to that before anything else.
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