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that if wo pay attention to the actually existent forces of 

 nature, and seek to work with and not against them, we 

 shall thus find the safest and easiest method of reaching 

 the- Pole. It is useless, as previous expeditions have 

 done, to work against the current ; we should see if there 

 is not a current we can work with. The Jcannette Expe- 

 dition is the only one, in my opinion, that started on the 

 right track, though it may have been unwittingly and 

 unwillingly. 



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"The Jeannette drifted for two years in the ice,, from 

 Wrangel Land to the New Siberian Islands. Three years 

 after she foundered to the north of these islands, there 

 was found frozen into the drift-ice in the neighbourhood 

 of Julianehaab on the south-west coast of Greenland, a 

 number of articles which appeared, from sundry indubi- 

 table marks, to proceed from the. sunken vessel. These 

 articles were first discovered by the Eskimo, and were 

 afterwards collected by Mr. Lytzen, Colonial Manager at 

 Julianehaab, who has given a list of them in the Danish 

 Geographical Journal for 1885. Among them the 

 following may especially be mentioned :- 



" i. A list of provisions, signed by De Long the com- 

 mander of \hejeanncttc. 



" 2. An MS. list of \hzjcannctte s boats. 



"3. A pair of oilskin breeches marked ' Louis Noros/ 

 the name of one of the Jeannette s crew, who 

 was saved. 



