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THE GERMAN AECTIG EXPEDITION. 



on the other side of the field set firmer together. The 

 next day we had frosty weather, 23° to 5° Fahr., and on the 

 14th of September, the Hansa was completely frozen 

 up in 73° 25-7' N.L., and 18° 39-5' W.L. The south- 

 westerly drift combined with the continual wind blow- 

 ing from the north drove the ship in the ice steadily south- 

 wards, so that from the 12th to the 14th (for example) 

 we had drifted thirteen nautical miles to the south. 



THE " liKAADEiNliURG GATK." 



On the 9th, a large floe drifted into the mouth of the 

 bay in which the Hansa lay. This wc made fast 

 with hawsers, in order to protect us from the floating 

 ice. Some days later, a storm from the N.N.E. broke 

 the hawsers and set the floe drifting once more. The 



