CHAPTER XI. 



SLEDGE JOUKNEY TO AEDENCAPLE INLET, FROM 8tH TO 29tH 



MAY, 1870.1 



Fitting out. — High temperature. — Bad prospects for the journey. — 

 Gi'eat difficulty of progress in deep snow. — Bears. — Impossibility 

 of passing Fligely Fjord. — March to the eastern side of Kuhn 

 Island. — Geological excursion. — Shooting of plants, and animal 

 life. — Miedcrs snow-blind. — Bastian Bay passed. — Anchoring by 

 Cape Bremen. — Ascent of Cape Bremen (3080 feet) by Lieut. 

 Payer, in company with Herzberg and Wagner. — Alteration in plan 

 of journey. — Exploration of Kuhn Island. — Erection of a Cairn on 

 the Peak of Cape Bremen. — Return march commenced. — Geology of 

 Kuhn Island. — Ascent of 3670 feet up the Black Wall on Kuhn 

 Island by Lieut. Payer, with Herzberg and Wagner. — Running 

 water. — Determination of the height of the Black Wall. — Cape 

 Berlin reached. — Arrival at the ship. 



Returning from our sledge journey on tlie 27tli April, we 

 found the ship lying as we had left her, there being still 

 seven feet thickness of ice in the harbour. Before the 

 middle of July we could not expect our release from the ice, 

 and then our exploring expeditions would begin. The in- 

 terim could not be better employed than by repeated sledge 

 journeys. The investigation of Ardencaple Inlet and the 

 fjords opening into it, and then, too, the possible con- 

 nexion of this bay with the sounds lying north-west of 



' By Lieut. Payei-. 



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