FURTHER VOYAGE OF THE HANSA. 91 



in tlie ice, but wLetlier or how we should ever come out 

 again, God only knew." 



Several photographs of the ship were taken from the 

 neighbouring floes by the first ofi&cer, Mr. Hildebrandt. 

 The frost and the reflection of the ice were very trouble- 

 some, but some succeeded very well. Unfortunately, this 

 trouble was also in vain. ISTeither the apparatus nor the 

 plates could be saved at the going down of the Hansa. 

 On the 20th, fifty nautical miles from the coast, two small 

 land-birds were seen picking up food on the ice. 



The boat journey to the longed-for land was under- 

 taken by the captain, the second ofiicer, and two sailors, 

 as well as Dr. Laube. " We sailed," says the latter in 

 his diary, " at two o'clock, and made a rapid course through 

 a long, wide canal. The vessel was soon lost to sight, as 

 the floes were very high. The ice-field along which the 

 Hansa lay, was nearly four miles long. Passing through a 

 cross channel, we came into some more open water, so that 

 at five o'clock we were about seven to eight nautical 

 miles distant from the ship, and consequently so many 

 miles nearer land. We lay to by a large floe, and from 

 its top looked around us. The ice before us was ' Pack- 

 ice.' We saw the islands of Pendulum and Sabine 

 surrounded by a streak of light which we took for open 

 coast wate. ' 



" We spread our oilskin coats on the floe, encamped 

 there, and made our cocoa, enjoyed the fine sunny day, and 

 rejoiced over the glimpse of land. We then crossed another 

 and a larger tract of ice, and climbed a wall which rose 

 straight out of the v,^ater. On this, our farthest point, we 



* This was confirmed later by the return voyage, through this water, 

 of the Germania on the 27th. 



