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streaks. The peculiar pleasure one naturally feels at 

 being stationed on tlie cliief sliij), and that a steamer, was 

 to a certain degree corrected. What we Gerraania people 

 had to bear from deprivations and want of room we fully 

 realized, now that we saw the complete, and well-ordered 

 space on the Hansa. In the handsome bright cabin (he 

 continues) tliere were only five people. Dr. Bucliholz 

 showed me his nice cabin, which he enjoyed all to himself. 

 In front of his bunk was room enough for chests and 

 boxes, not piled one on another, but placed so that they 

 could be got at ; and besides that, a place for a writing, 

 table, where he could work quietly and undisturbed. The 

 deck-space was not encroached upon by all sorts of 

 stores, and even now seemed to offer accommodation for 

 working upon large animals, without being in the way of 

 the sailors. There was room enough for a zoolosfist in cold 

 and windy weather to put up his table there. We pictured 

 to ourselves our united activity in the brightest colours ; 

 we agreed upon the plan of attack, and carrying out of 

 our future work amongst the ice Fauna ; we supplemented 

 our literature by changing some books ; in short, we 

 lived entirely in the delightful contemplation of our great 

 task. Fate had, however, ordered our future far other- 

 wise. Besides this, every one on board both ships was 

 overjo^^ed at last by a sunny day, and all tried their best 

 to dry all their wet things. On board the Hansa this 

 seemed particularly necessary, for lying in the sun on 

 the quarter-deck were some thousands of cigars which in 

 the storm had made too intimate an acquaintance with 

 the sea-water. At noon each party returned to their 

 OAvn ship." 



Then followed a two-days' gale, which blew stubbornly 



