110 ISLAND OF ARAKTSCHIEF. 
boisterous surf, we were compelled to renounce 
our desire of becoming more intimately ac- 
quainted with the Predpriatians. The un- 
clouded sky enabled us, nevertheless, to deter- 
mine by observation the exact latitude and 
longitude of this little island, whose greatest 
extent is only four miles from EK.N.E. to 
W.S.W. The latitude of its central point is 
15° 58 18” South, and its longitude, 140° 11’ 
30”. The variation of the needle was 4° East. 
When we had finished our observations, I 
steered a westerly course for the island of 
Araktschief, discovered in the year 1819 by 
the Russian Captain Bellingshausen, in order 
to convince myself that it was actually not the 
one we had just quitted. 
At four o’clock in the afternoon we could 
already see this island from the mast-head, and 
we reached it before sunset. It bears, with 
respect to size and circumstances, so closé a 
resemblance to that of Predpriatie, that they 
might easily be mistaken, if their relative situa- 
tions were not exactly known. 
From our observation, we found the latitude 
of the centre of the island of Araktschief 
