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" 4. The peak of a cap on which, according to Lytzen's 

 statement, was written F. C. Lindeinann. The 

 name of one of the crew of the Jeannette, who 

 was also saved, was F. C. Nindemann. This 

 may either have been a clerical error on 

 Lytzen's part or a misprint in the Danish 

 journal. 



"In America when it was reported that these articles 

 had been found, people were very sceptical and doubts of 

 their genuineness were expressed in the American news- 

 papers. The facts, however, can scarcely be sheer 

 inventions ; and it may therefore be safely assumed that 

 an ice-floe bearing these articles from the Jeannette had 

 drifted from the place where it sank to Julianehaab. 



" By what route did this ice-floe reach the west coast 

 of Greenland ? 



" Professor Mohn, in a lecture before the Scientific 

 Society of Christiania in November, 1894, showed that 

 it could have come by no other way than across the 

 Pole.* 



* Mr. Lytzen, of Julianehaab, afterwards contributed an article to the 

 Geografisk Tidsskrift (8th Vol., 1885-86, pp. 49-51, Copenhagen;, in 

 which he expressed himself, so far at least as I understand him, in the 

 same sense, and remarkably enough, suggested that this circumstance 

 might possibly be found to have an important bearing on Arctic 

 exploration. He says : " It will therefore be seen that Polar explorers 

 who seek to advance towards the Pole from the Siberian Sea will 

 probably at one place or another be hemmed in by the ice, but 



