566 THE VOYAGE OF THE JE ANNETTE. 



failure on my part to make it known. I issued a gen- 

 eral order communicating the names and positions of 

 the two islands : Jeannette Island (our discovery of 

 May 16th), in latitude N. 76° 47', longitude E. 158° 56' ; 

 and Henrietta Island (our discovery of May 24th), in 

 latitude N. 77° 8', longitude E. 157° 43' ; and in the 

 evening I ordered a double ration of whiskey served 

 out forward. At ten a. m. I read the Articles of War 

 and inspected the ship, and at 1.30 p. M. I read divine 

 service. 



Thank God, we have at least landed upon a newly 

 discovered part of this earth, and a perilous journey has 

 been accomplished without disaster. It was a great 

 risk, but it has resulted in some advantage. 



Our sick-list now assumes quite a proportion. Chipp, 

 Danenhower, New r comb, Dunbar, Alexey, and, in addi- 

 tion, my head for a day or two. For one night, at all 

 events, the doctor insists I shall not go out to the ob- 

 servatory, lest I take cold in the cut and erysipelas en- 

 sue ; but as soon as I get over the stunned and dazed 

 sensations I have now I think I shall be as fit for work 

 as before. 



June Qth, Monday. — While the ocean around us has 

 been alive all day we have remained perfectly calm 

 and undisturbed. This morning we found that such a 

 disruption of the ice-fields had occurred as to leave us 

 on the western side of a floe island, about one hundred 

 yards from its edge, and that the whole of the outside 

 ice was broken up into a terribly confused heap of roll- 

 ing, tumbling, and grinding floebergs, forcibly remind- 

 ing us of our experiences of November, 1879- We 

 were evidently in transit across the north face of Hen- 

 rietta Island, and bound westward ho ! 



Our ice-island was irregular in shape, with its longer 



