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SOUTHWARDS FROM THE WINTER HUT. 



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The assumed latitude is 80 17' (see June 12). The mean of the rather discordant values 

 of the clock error is l'> 14"" 25 s , corresponding to I = 3.0. 



After a very good sailing on the ice during the whole night from 7 p.m June 10 till 6 a.m 

 June 11 (distance sailed estimated to be 12 miles at least) the tent was raised before reaching 

 land on the other side of the sound (J. De Bruyne Sound). Here the following observation 

 was taken: 



1896, June 11. Bar. 753.8 mm, Temp. - 2.9. Ind. corr. (+ 5'?), height of eye G feet. 



Midnight [Sun L. L.], Sextant 12 58', which gives the latitude 80 2'. 

 From the same station the following bearings were taken, noted on a sketch : 



Tent place of June 9-10 (near Hooker Island) N 13 W by Compass 



South point of a small island (J. Etheridge Island?) . . . N 62 E 



South-east point of another island (J. Cape Barents) ... S 23 W 



More northern point of the same island (J. Northbrook I.) . N 81 W 



Applying the magnetic declination 16.5 E the first bearing gives i. = 3.l. 

 After continuing the sailing on the ice from 4 till 6 in the morning of the following day, 

 now in a more westerly direction than before, the following observations were taken: 



1896, June 12. Bar. 754.0 mm, Temp. - 1.8C. Ind. corr. (+ 5'?), height of eye 'J feet. 



The assumed latitude is 79 58', and the mean value of the clock error lh 17 m 14 s , which 

 gives ). = 3.6. 



It has been supposed that this station is nearly on the line determined on June 11 by 

 the bearing of Cape Barents, towards which the travellers were steering when the weather had 

 cleared up. The apparently somewhat arbitrary assumption of <f = 80 17' for the station of 

 June 9 in the evening, which was combined with the station of June 11 by the first bearing of 

 that day, has been made in order to nearly fulfil this condition. 



Shortly after this observation the travellers met the open sea and went into the kayaks, 

 and were henceforth sailing round Cape Barents and westwards along the ice border till the evening. 

 After rowing during the night of June 1314 the following observations were taken: 



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1896, June 14. Bar. 754.5 mm, Temp. - 2 C. Ind. corr. + 4', height of eye 7 feet. 



These observations having been taken at the same place they were combined two and 

 two, with due regard to the acceleration of the watch and the change of the equation of time 

 between the two series, and gave the following results: 



