REPORT OF THE VOYAGE. 



Hoping that the situation of the ice might be more favourable later on in the year, I sailed 

 on the 8 ,h of July, after having coaled ship and done several kinds of ship's work at Dyre-Fjord, for 

 the East coast of Iceland. 



It was not without some difficulty occasioned by ice that I succeeded in passing the north- 

 western part of the island, whereafter the course was laid for Cape Langanccs, and, when this was 

 passed, the explorations began at the Eastcoast, and were brought to an end on the 18 th of July. 



The cruiser left Eske-Fjord, where it had coaled, on the said day, and the course was laid for 

 Jan Mayen, under the south coast of with we brought up with a stiff northerly breeze in the night 

 between the 22 d and 23 d of July. The island has no safe anchorage, and vessels are obliged to anchor 

 on the open coast, and in case of a fresh sea-breeze suddenly springing up, they may run the risk of 

 being barred out from communication with the shore for a long time; as according to my instructions, 

 I had no special task to perform in this island, we did not make a longer stay here than necessary 

 for the naturalists to make a short visit ashore. 



From Jan Mayen the course was laid for Cape Langanas, where the cruiser arrived on the 

 21* of July, and from this place we steered West to the Melrakkaslette, and afterwards in a northerly 

 direction till we reached the polar ice at a distance of 105 miles from Iceland. 



The whole of the voyage, after we left Eske-Fjord, was favoured with fine weather, and a 

 great number of stations had been obtained with a specially good result. 



On the 30 th and 31 st , the cruiser visited Off or d. 



It was hereafter my intention to resume the work north and northwest of the northwestern 

 part of Iceland, but the cruiser found the state of the ice just as unfavourable as it had been on the 

 outward passage; from the Skagen, the northeasterly corner of the Skagestrand-Bay, we only succeeded 

 in penetrating 40 miles to the northward; more westerly, circumstances were still more unfarourable, 

 as the ice here was lying close to the shore; even along the west coast outside fsaj/'ord, the ice was 

 on the 3 d of August lying at a distance of only 11 miles from the shore, a circumstance I never 

 have witnessed at this time of the year, during the many years I have been navigating in the 

 Icelandic waters. 



From a zoological point of view, it is perhaps of minor importance that the part of the Arctic 

 sea, bordering on the northwestern part of Iceland, has not been examined; on the other hand, I 

 regret it more in so far as hydrography regards, and likewise that we have not succeeded in getting 

 soundings on the fishing banks of the aforesaid part of the Arctic sea. 



When the cruiser had taken in the necessary coals for the homeward passage at Dyre-Fjord, 

 the course was laid round the south of Iceland, where some completing work was done, and after this, 

 some time was spent in examining the submarine ridge between Iceland and the Faeroe-Islands, which 

 gave a good result 



At the Faeroe-Islands, the cruiser made a stay of a few days, among other things to take 

 on board the skeleton of a cacholot acquired by the Zoological Museum at Copenhagen. On the 19 th 

 of August, the Ingolf arrived in the Sound, and on the 29 th she was paid off; with this the expedition 

 was concluded. 



