496 THE GERMAN ARCTfC EXPEDITION. 



left us. At six a.m. we reached our former resting-place, 

 half-way along the west coast of Klein Pendulum, where 

 we were met by our old friends the ptarmigans; here we 

 slept the whole of the sunny day and began our march in 

 the evening. 



Our road lay at first on the smooth undulating fresh- 

 water ice, running along the coast-line, our only fear 

 being that of running ourselves down from the momentum 

 of the sledge. Between Kuhn Island, Shannon and 

 Pendulum Straits the snow lay fidl of holes, the outer 

 crust being hard; but the sledge slides broke through, 

 and it was soft beneath, so that the tent-poles pierced it 

 easily at least seven feet and a half. At six a.m. on the 16th 

 we were only one nautical mile and a half north of Klein 

 Pendulum, and quite exhausted we put up our tent for a 

 rest ; starting again in the evening, we could take only part 

 of our baggage with us, and after marching two nau- 

 tical miles and a half had to go back for the other part. 

 Upon starting it was so foggy that we had to direct our 

 course by the compass, though a lift showed us the edge 

 of the land ice a few nautical miles from us. This day we 

 marched fifteen nautical miles and found ourselves in 

 74° 55' N. Lat., exactly south of Tellplatte. We here 

 discovered by the Dancer-telescope, to our great joy, that 

 all the cairns built were visible, although they were quite 

 from fifteen to twenty nautical miles distant. 



The exertions of the last few days had so greatly ex- 

 hausted our strength that we could not start again until 

 eight a.m. on the 19th. 



At noon we trod the coast, and climbed the mountain 

 to choose the spot for our cairn. The ground resembled 

 Cape Philip Broke, which we had visited the year before. 



