EXCURSION TO KLEIN PENDULUM. 487 



nected with the others on Sabine Island. On this 

 occasion we used a small sledge made for the purpose 

 by the carpenter and the smith. The ice was very thin, 

 and we had to pick our way carefully along the " Ice-foot." 

 After passing the south-east point of the island we saw 

 a walrus sleeping on the ice, which Copeland and Iversen 

 killed. Upon skinning the creature fifteen minutes after 

 its death, the warmth of the blood in the jugular vein 

 w^as ninety-eight; we may therefore conclude that this 

 is its true warmth, as in that short time it could not 

 possibly have fallen to any extent. In the straits 

 between the two islands we came upon the old ice, and 

 started direct across to Klein Pendulum, where at half- 

 past seven we raised our tent at the foot of the Stufen- 

 berg. The next morning was stormy, and we could 

 not leave the tent until evening, when Dr. Copeland set 

 out to find the station where, the summer before, we had 

 taken our observations. We then built a small cairn 

 about fourteen yards to the south-west of it, and as the 

 spot is easy of access and may be visited by future 

 travellers, the following particulars may be useful. The 

 cairn stands near a group of Esquimaux winter huts, its 

 top being 32 feet 9 inches above the mean height of the 

 water. The latitude and longitude, according to ob- 

 servations made last autumn, is 74° 37' 37" North, and 

 1° 13' 57", or 18° 29' 2" West from Greenwich. 



The next day was rather fine ; we climbed the Stufen- 

 berg, and added seven feet to the height of the cairn 

 built by Lieutenant Payer the year before. Through a 

 telescope of 18-lines aperture, we could distinguish the 

 small cairn built by Drs. Borgen and Copeland the 

 August before on the Hiihnerljcrg. 



