REPORT OF THE VOYAGE. 



It was left to myself to decide the plan that was to be followed, after I had made myself 

 acquainted with the condition of the ice at the place; I only got orders — on account of the work 

 uFauna Gronlandiea* that was being prepared — to finish the investigation of the waters to the 

 westward of Cape Farewell in 1895, and upon the whole to work with the object in view of bringing 

 the work — on the whole of the territory intended to be examined --to an end in the course of 

 two voyages of 4 months each. 



On the 2' 1 of May, the vessel was commissioned. The crew consisted of 70 hands all told, and 

 when everything was in order and on board, the ship put out from the Naval Dockyard the same 

 day to try her engines. After the third and fourth of May had been used for adjustment of the 

 compasses, and a temporary trial had been made of the instruments and apparatuses on board, the 

 cruiser left on the morning of the 5 th for the Fseroe-Islands, at which place she arrived on the 9 th . 



From the Faeroe-Islauds the course was shaped for Seydis-Fjord on the eastcoast of Iceland. 

 During the passage a series of stations were taken as prescribed by the plan. All apparatuses and 

 installations were tried, and everything worked upon the whole in a satisfactory manner, so that only 

 a few modifications were considered necessary. 



From Seydis-Fjord it was originally intended to proceed to the seas to the northward of Iceland, 

 but the intelligence that reached us at the said fjord concerning the ice, was upon the whole discour- 

 aging to such a degree, that I made up my mind to spend the time before the cruiser's departure to 

 Greenland in explorations in the Denmark-Strait. 



The cruiser left Seydis-Fjord on the afternoon of the 15 th of May, and sailed in fine weather 

 along the eastern coast of Iceland, sounding and trawling. On the night between the 16 th and 17 th 

 sounding and trawling were performed south of Iceland in 600 fathoms of water in latitude 63 13' N. 

 and longitude 15 41' W. , but a quickly freshening westerly wind which soon increased to a gale, 

 hardly allowed the completion of the work. 



Fighting against bad weather, which prevented all work, the cruiser reached Cape Reykjanas 

 in the forenoon of the 19 th , and from this spot a regular line was taken towards the eastcoast of 

 Greenland at the latitude of Angmagsalik, the place, where, according to experience, the eastern 

 Greenland ice has the least extent. The edge of the ice was reached on the 23 d , but we did not 

 succeed in approaching the coast nearer than 60 miles, and the Ingolf reached only the edge of 

 the Arctic current which is running south along the east coast of Greenland. We just succeeded 

 in completing the line under an increasing north easterly breeze, which afterwards increased to a gale 

 till the 28 th , preventing all work; on the following day the cruiser arrived at Dyre-Fjord. 



At this place we coaled ship, completed different kinds of ship's work and overhauled the 

 engines. The bottom of the fjord was examined, and after celebration of the Whitsuntide holidays the 

 cruiser sailed again on the 4 th of June into the Denmark-Strait for exploration, for which, however, 

 the weather often threw obstacles in the way. On the 7 th of June the cruiser called at Isafjord to 

 take in coals, which had been discharged there for her, stood again into the Denmark-Strait, called at 

 0nundar-Fjord and Dyre-Fjord, and arrived at Reykjavik on the 12 th of June. During her stay here, 

 the naturalists made an expedition into the country. 



While in Onundar-Fjord the expedition received the sad tidings that the vessel carrying to 



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