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the strait, and before the schooner was reached by the 

 boats there came round the point the Hope, which 

 Sir Allen Young, of the Pandora, had brought out as 

 a rescue ship for them. They had been driven by the 

 gale to the very spot on the very day they could be 

 best relieved. 



From the reports of Weyprecht and Payer it 

 appeared that the north-east of Franz Josef Land 

 would make an excellent base for a start for the North 

 Pole, and Leigh Smith was led to the same view by 

 his visit to Alexandra Land, but along the south he 

 had made so many changes in Payer's map that a 

 further examination of the region was evidently desir- 

 able. To effect this by a careful survey of the coasts, 

 Frederick G. Jackson landed near Cape Flora on the 

 7th of September, 1894, and began his residence of a 

 thousand days. Setting to work in a businesslike way, 

 and recording his progress in similar style, he disin- 

 tegrated the land masses into a group of some fifty size- 

 able islands, through which run two main waterways, 

 his British Channel and Payer's Austria Sound, both 

 opening out northwards into Queen Victoria Sea ; 

 Crown Prince Rudolf Land being a large island at 

 the northern entrance of Austria Sound, Wilczek Land 

 at its southern entrance being about twice its size. 

 He defined the coast - lines for over eighty miles of 

 latitude, extending to fifteen degrees of longitude as 

 far west as the most westerly headland, Cape Mary 

 Harmsworth, and so cutting up Franz Josef Land that 

 not even an island now bears the name, which is used 

 only as that of the archipelago. Never in Arctic 

 exploration was work rendered more evident than in 



