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have to proceed in tLe same manner, for it does not seem 

 difficult to reach the Liverpool coast; Clavering and 

 Sabine, also, easily found an opportunity of getting to Pen- 

 dulum Island ; but it is difficult, indeed almost impracti- 

 cable, for us to land at that place. The decision is easier 

 on the map than in the Arctic Sea, as circumstances 

 there arise which cannot be anticipated." As we could 

 no longer continue the same course, there remained 

 nothing for us but to act up to the letter of our instruc- 



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tions, and steer once more in an easterly direction out 

 of the ice; and having once reached the edge, begin 

 afresh. On the 29th and 30th of July, we sighted two 

 vessels, tacking with a north-east wind, about twelve sea 

 miles distant. As we afterwards learned, one was the 

 steamer Bienenkorb, Captain Hagens, from the Weser, 

 which, on the 29th of July, farther northwards, spoke with 

 the (to us) still invisible Germania; and on her return 

 to Bremen on the 2nd of September, reported thus : — 

 " Spoke the Germania on the 29th of July, in about 73° 

 2' N.L. and 15° 50' W.L. ; she was steering northwards 

 along the border of the ice to rejoin the Hansa. The 



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