VOYAGE OF THE GERMANIA AND IIANSA. 37 



from the north-west. It flooded the deck and cabin once 

 more with water ; but these days were the last to bring 

 us any sad remembrance of the German Ocean. Upon 

 nearing 59° N.L., exactly a fortnight after our departure, 

 the influence of the north wind came to an end, and it 

 came on to blow from the south. 



This last storm ended on the 28th of June, and the 

 next day we went slowly forward. It was a clear, warm 

 day, so that we opened and aired every place, and all 

 dampness was once more got rid of. The deck, too, was 

 perfectly dry; so it was cleared, and in some places 

 caulked by the carpenter. 



In the last days of June the freshening north wind 

 brought us another hindrance, which was to follow us for 

 many days. As long as the temperature stood at 50° F. 

 a fog rose about noon, which in the evening grew so dense, 

 that for fear of being separated from the Hansa each ship 

 was obliged to blow the fog-horn alternately for sixteen 

 hours, the broken tones of which sounded most melan- 

 choly through the troubled atmosphere. 



Slowly but surely we cruised onwards, so that on the 

 evening of the 1st of July we had the pleasure of finding 

 ourselves in 61° N.L., and of passing the entrance be- 

 tween Norway and the Shetland Isles. With that, the 

 German Ocean was left behind and the open sea reached, 

 which already made itself felt by the peculiar " Atlantic 

 swell." We now found ourselves in that part of the 

 Atlantic known to Germans as the " Nordmeer." 



For this first part of our voyage, which a ship with a 

 fair wind would have made in about two days and a half, 

 we had taken sixteen days. From the clear space before 

 us we might now hope for greater progress, the more so, 



