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Meanwhile blood flowed amid the groans and cries. Turquiette, thrown down by Jocki, a man of immense strength, had received a wound in the shoulder, and he tried in vain to clutch a pistol which hung in the Norwegian's belt. The latter held him as in a vice, and it was impossible for him to move. At Vasling's cry for help, who was being held by Penellan close against the door, Herming rushed up.
No serious wound endangered his life: he had only lost his breath for a moment. "Marie!" he said, opening his eyes. "Saved!" replied Perfellan. "Herming is lying there with a knife-wound in his stomach." "And the bears " "Dead, Louis; dead, like our enemies! But for those beasts we should have been lost. Truly, they came to our succour. Let us thank Heaven!"
The "Froöern" had indeed been driven to a place forty miles from where Louis Cornbutte had taken up his winter quarters. There she was broken up by the icebergs floated by the thaw, and the castaways were carried, with a part of the débris of their cabin, on the southern shores of Shannon Island. They were then five in number Louis Cornbutte, Courtois, Pierre Nouquet, Jocki, and Herming.
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