370 THE GERMAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



nino p.m., liaving traversed twenty-six nautical miles, 

 just as they were about to send a sledge after us, being 

 uneasy as l:o our fate. 



Two days after the sun set, not to rise again until the 

 spring, and frightful snow-storms began. 



The passage conjectured by Clavering to exist to 

 the north of the island of the same name, the disco- 

 very of some Fjords, the enlargement of our geographical 

 knowledge of the neighbourhood, the completion of its 

 chart, and, lastly, the highly interesting study of the 

 Greenland glaciers, were the fruits of this difficult 

 journey of over 200 miles, reckoning the distance out 

 and in. 



