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strong running stream of ice. As has already been said, 

 we saw from the hill northwards, as far as the eye could 

 reach, water and a dark water sky ; it was, therefore, 

 thought well to steam on without delay. It was, how- 

 ever, discovered that one of the boiler-pipes leaked. 



Our impatience to push forward before the open water 

 should again be blocked by fields, led us to weigh anchor, 

 in the hope that a 401b. pressure would at least not 

 increase the leakage ; but this force we found insufficient. 

 We were therefore obliged to lie to, as the wind was 

 not strong enough for us to work our way through the 

 floes. That same night the pipe was repau^ed. The 

 compulsory stay at this Cape was on the following day 

 (25th of July) turned to account by the scientific men. 



The peculiarity of this part of the island was the broad, 

 soft, billowy-shaped plains, in which but little water ran. 

 Everywhere one could see distinctly the effects of the 

 spring snows and hear the geutly-gurgling melted 

 water. 



On the 2Gtli of July, at two a.m., we continued om* 

 journey northwards. The weather was fine, with a light 

 south-west wind, the temperature 36.5° Fahr. From the 

 mountain the captain had seen that the field blocking tlie 

 channel by the land-ice had parted, so that a passage 

 many miles in length had been opened up to us ; there 

 was, however, a fog-bank to the south, which soon rolled 

 up and enveloped us. At five a.m. it cleared, and we 

 found a quantity of ice ahead of us ; we were close to the 

 most easterly cape of Shannon, Cape Pansch, in the same 

 latitude in Avhicli Clavering had to turn back on account 

 of the densely-packed ice. Here we lay to, and, climbing 

 n neighbouring hill of about 100 feet in height, took a 



