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every little mirrored, surface of the young ice. The tem- 

 perature of the snow had fallen to 20° Fahr., so that the 

 travellers in their thin shoes were on the point of freezing. 

 A drowsiness crept over them, Cape Philip Broke seemed 

 unattainable; at last they reached the place where the 

 dead bear lay, and, after thirty-three hours' absence. Cape 

 Philip Broke (seven German miles). On the same day 

 (26th August), the Germania returned from Pendulum 

 Island, but only to start again on the 27th for the same 

 place with the whole community. 



Dr. Borgen gives the following description of the 

 excursion to Klein-Pendulum, from the 27th to the 31st 

 of August. 



Whilst Lieut. Payer surveyed the land and roamed 

 through the island, we were chained to the shore by 

 astronomical and magnetic observations. But we did 

 not altogether miss interesting things ; Ave were mucn 

 amused by the confidence of the sand-pipers, with tneir 

 melancholy "tut-tut" coming close to us. The ducks, 

 however, were more shy, who with their young ones were 

 evidently on an excursion (as they do not nest on Pendu- 

 lum). 



Near the place where we had pitched our tent we 

 found some winter huts, the digging up of which brought 

 much to light that was useful for our collection. 



Even Dr. Pansch, whose wound was beginning to heal, 

 would not remain inactive, and spent the sunny day in 

 looking for botanical specimens. 



The wind was rough, and, though the Stufenberg 

 protected us, on the whole, from the north wind, it some- 

 times rushed down the steep sides and slopes like a 

 whirlwind, against which our little tent could make nc 



