488 THE GERMAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



The following day, tlie 7th, the weather was anything 

 but satisfactory; but we clirabGd the north-westerly 

 height of the island, which, according to our chart, had 

 been chosen as a station. This height we called Church 

 Point, as the rocky masses reminded us of a church, and 

 here we built a cairn ; though, owing to the fog, we were 

 unable to decide whether the spot would ever be useful 

 as a station. 



Friday, Btli of April, the weather had become worse, 

 and we were doubtful what to do ; but at last decided 

 that after signalling another point from Klein Pendulum, 

 we should either climb the Tafelberg north of Hansa 

 Bay, or any other height, then round by Sabine Island 

 to the Kronenberg, in order to supply this with a cairn. 

 But upon reaching the coast of Sabine Island, north of 

 Hansa Bay, the weather had become so bad that we 

 determined to return on board ; and as the young ice was 

 now safe, we reached the ship shortly after three p.m., 

 although our sledge was lieavily laden with the skin of 

 the walrus. 



On Monday, the 11th, Dr. Copeland accompanied by 

 Dr. Panschj Iversen, and Warkmeister, started once 

 more, this time for the mainland, to signal from the 

 Huhnerberg and then to go on to the Kronenberg. By 

 the time we reached the foot of the Hiilmerberg it was 

 too late to climb it, so we visited a glacier lying in one 

 of those peculiar cauldron-shaped valleys in which the 

 Pendulum Islands abound. The water which runs from 

 this glacier in the summer finds its way by subterranean 

 channels into the sea. 



The surface seemed free from cracks; but an ever- 

 recurring cracking noise told us that even at this season 



