2O Chapter I. 



Having shown that this is evident from the Tegethoff 

 drift and from many other circumstances, I proceeded : 



" The distance from the New Siberian Islands to the 



8oth degree of latitude on the east coast of Greenland is 



1,360 miles, and the distance from the last-named place 



to Julianehaab 1,540 miles, making- together a distance 



of 2,900 miles. This distance was traversed by the 



Hoe in i, 100 days, which gives a speed of 2'6 miles per 



day of 24 hours. The time during which the relics 



drifted after having reached the 8oth degree of latitude, 



till they arrived at Julianehaab, can be calculated with 



tolerable precision, as the speed of the above-named 



current along the east coast of Greenland is well known. 



It may be assumed that it took at least 400 days to 



accomplish this distance ; there remain, then, about 



700 days as the longest time the drifting articles can 



have taken from the New Siberian Islands to the 8oth 



degree of latitude. Supposing that they took the 



shortest route, i.e., across the Pole, this computation 



gives a. speed of about 2 miles in 24 hours. On the 



other hand, supposing they went by the route south of 



Franz Josef Land, and south of Spitzbergen, they must 



have drifted at much higher speed. Two miles in the 



24 hours, however, coincides most remarkably with the 



rate at which ti\e Jeannette drifted during the last months 



of her voyage, from January ist to June T2th, 1881. In 



this time she drifted at an average rate of a little over 



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2 miles in the 24 hours. If, however, the average speed 



