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Updated: July 28, 2025
But it was an incontestable fact that at the time of the shipwreck, and during the interval that elapsed between the sailing of the "Viking" from Saint-Pierre-Miquelon, and the discovery of the bottle by the Danish vessel, constant gales from the south-east had disturbed that portion of the Atlantic. In fact, it was to one of these tempests that the catastrophe must be attributed.
There he found Ole, who was still very weak, and told him all that had taken place since the arrival of his last letter, written from Saint-Pierre-Miquelon, after which he took the young sailor home with him, though not without having requested the crew of the "Genius" to keep the secret a few hours longer. The reader knows the rest.
Hulda took one more look at the envelope, then, after slowly breaking the seal, she drew out the carefully written letter, which read as follows: "Saint-Pierre-Miquelon, March 17th, 1862. "My Dearest Hulda, You will hear, with pleasure, that our fishing venture has prospered, and that it will be concluded in a few days.
Sylvius Hogg opened the letter and read it aloud. To his great regret the missive contained only some very vague information; and the professor was unable to conceal his disappointment from the young people who listened to the letter with tears in their eyes. The "Viking" had left Saint-Pierre-Miquelon on the date mentioned in Ole Kamp's last letter.
He concluded his recital by saying: "There is certainly one point about which there can be no possible doubt: this is, that on the third day of June, about one month after the departure from Saint-Pierre-Miquelon, the ticket was picked up two hundred miles south-west of Iceland." "And that is all you know?"
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