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the difference between the map as Jackson found it 

 and as he left it. 



The Windward, with the expedition on board, 

 sighted the land on the 25th of August, but, stopped 

 by intervening ice, could not reach the coast until a 

 fortnight afterwards, the landing taking place at Cape 

 Flora, close to Leigh Smith's house, which was found 

 with the roof off. Not far away Jackson established 

 his headquarters, quite a little settlement, though the 

 expedition consisted of only eight men. Just as Leigh 

 Smith found no remains of the Tegetthoff, so Jackson 

 found no trace of the Eira. It had been intended 

 that the Windward should return after putting the 

 party ashore, but, shut in by the ice, she had to re- 

 main during the first winter, getting away safely next 

 year, to return in 1896 and take away Nansen, who, as 

 we shall see further on, ended his long land journey 

 here. On her 1897 trip she departed with the members 

 of the expedition all well, so that neither ship nor man 

 was lost, the only serious casualties being among the 

 dogs and the Russian ponies which did such excellent 

 service. 



Two years afterwards, in July, 1899, the deserted 

 settlement was visited by the Duke of the Abruzzi, 

 in his expedition in the Stella Polare, on his way to 

 the north, a few days before he met with his short 

 imprisonment in the ice in British Channel. His was 

 a successful run all the same, for he was in 82 4', to 

 the northward of Crown Prince Rudolf Land, or^ as 

 it is now called, Prince Rudolf Island, twenty-seven 

 days out from Archangel. Passing Cape Fligely the 

 latitude of which was afterwards found to be sixteen 



