NO. 6.| SOUTHWARDS FROM THE WINTER HUT. 133 
1896, June 3. Sailing on the ice towards Cape Fisher. It is not stated when the departure 
took place. 
Bar. 751.5 mm, Temp. — 1°.5 C. 
Circle Hor. Point 89° 51‘ + a Assumed clock correction — 1h 5m 30s, corresponding to 
128.5 daily acceleration and 4 = 1°.1. 
| 
Watch I | Vert. Girele | Nat | “ 
hm s ° 1 | ° ’ 
1 15 54 pm | Sun L. L. 120 54 || 81 59 +a — 0,009 
19 50 4 As 120 538 S| «81 6144+ — 0.012. Mean: 
MW 5 ee celis 58 16.5 81 45 —x — 0.015 81° 5/1 
27 5A a ze 58 17.0 | 81 41 —x — 0.018 
The tent was raised in the evening somewhat past Cape Fisher. The travellers went on 
the next day at 6 p.m, first sailing on the ice, then rowing in the kayaks round Cape Richthofen 
till 7 am June 5. 
1896, June 6. Before leaving the tent-place near Cape Richthofen the bearing was taken 
of “most easterly point of new land” (on the other side of Jackson’s Markham Sound) in 
S 68° E; open sea visible in S 75° W, both by compass. 
After some six hours of sailing on the ice the following observations were taken with the 
sextant. Index corr. + 5/, height of eye 4 feet. Bar. 750.5 mm, Temp. — 3° C, 
Watch I 
Qh 23m 0s pm Sun L. L. 31° 31‘ 
Noon ve i 31 42 
The meridian altitude gives gy = 80° 44. If the first altitude be used to seek the hour 
angle corresponding to 11’ reduction to the meridian, it would give the watch 1h 6™ 54s in 
advance of apparent time or 1 8m 95s in advance of mean time; of course with considerable 
uncertainty. 
From the same station the following bearings were taken (noted on a sketch): 
West point of island in the north (Jackson’s Cape Richthofen) . N 7° E by Compass 
Most southern visible point of the same island . . St moO 
North point of another island in the sound (J. Br Gminnk Island?) S70 E ” 
A small island far east is indicated between the last two bearings. 
North point of a third island (J. Fridtjof Nansen Island ?) Ss 
West point of the same island .. . . 8 23 
East point of a fourth island (J. Reg ine Koettlite Tata 2», S 
S) 
See 
North-west point of the same . Pt aie res tere 
The tent was raised in the evening near the point of the last bearing. 
As the two bearings of C. Richthofen (supposing that this was the point observed from 
the south side of the Hope Island on June 1) cut under a too small angle, the last named 
bearing was combined with the parallel of 80° 47:5, which appears to be the latitude of this 
point according to an observation of Mr. Armitage taken in the neighbourhood 1895 April 27 
during Jackson’s expedition. This gives for C. Richthofen 4= 1°41’ and for the present station, 
by méans of the bearing above, 4=1° 52’. Applying the daily acceleration of 128.5 from May 16, 
this would give the watch 1h 9m 10s in advance of Local Mean Time on June 6, Noon, not more 
different from the above approximate value, than could be expected. 
The following observations were taken before leaving the point near Koettlitz Island, 
where the travellers stopped on the evening of June 6, 
