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3° Falir. ; but on the 24th and 25th April it fell again 

 to -13°. 



One of the sailors, a Frankfort man, Peter Ellinger 

 (called Hans), the heartiest companion and the most 

 difficult to replace, had greatly suffered" from excessive 

 exertion and the frost; and as a great deal depended 

 upon his being with us in the expedition for exploring 

 the great Fjords to the north-west of Ardencaple Bay 

 in the next sledge journey (which we were to begin after 

 eight days' rest, and which would last for four weeks), 

 Payer and he left the sledge, in order to reach the ship 

 and the doctor as soon as possible. 



On the 26th they helped to drag the sledge from 

 twelve p.m. to half-past eight a.m., when they started 

 alone with some provisions and melted water, which 

 however soon froze on their bodies, across the snow- 



' Ellinger, with his aspirations and intelligence, might have hecome 

 a great support to the German Arctic Expedition, but he unfortunately 

 died shortly after its return. In December, 1870, he left Rotterdam 

 on a Dutch ship for Savannah, and after eleven days' fever, in the 

 hospital of that place, he died on the 26th February, 1871. Besides 

 Payer every one connected with the Expedition gave him the most 

 excellent character. In the official report of the Committee for the 

 North German Expedition, in Bremen, on the 15th of July, 1871, it runs 

 thus : — " Captain Koldewey and Dr. Copeland made honourable mention 

 of Peter Ellinger, sailor on board the Germania during the second 

 German Expedition, and who is lately dead. The death of this young 

 man — he was only twenty-four — is still more to be deplored, as his 

 whole conduct during that time led us to suppose that he would 

 eventually prove an ornament to the German navy, not only from his 

 cleverness in all seaman's work, but also for his great interest in all 

 nautical science. He thirsted for knowledge, and was very successful in 

 meteorological and magnetic observations, and also took part in sur- 

 veying ; and being employed in all great undertakings, deserves the 

 utmost thanks at the hands of the Expedition." 



