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same commander sailed from Bremen for the east coast of 

 40. Koide- Greenland, with the Germania steamer, and a store- 



wey's track 



of 1868, by ship called the Hansa. The latter vessel was caught 



Petermann. 



(R.G.S.) in the ice, and her crew wintered on the floe, ai:d 

 experienced a remarkable drift almost to Cape Farewell. The 

 Germania wintered at the part of the east coast of Greenland, 

 Disco- in 74 3'> which was discovered by Captain Clavering 

 Ge r rman f Ex! in l82 3- I n the spring of 1870 Captain Koldewey 

 anc * Lieutenant Payer made a sledge journey for a 



Greenland. hundred and fifty miles to the northward, as far as 

 77 N., where a grim cape was named after Prince 

 Bismarck. A magnificent fiord, running far into the interior, 

 was also discovered, and in September, 1870, the Germania 

 returned to Bremen. 



33. The Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition, under Captain 

 Weyprecht and Lieutenant Payer, sailed in 1872 in the hope of 

 making the North-East Passage ; but their little steamer, the 

 Tegethoff) was beset in the ice to the north of Novaya Zemlya, and 

 drifted through the winter of 1872-73. When still beset, they 

 came in sight of a mountainous country on August 315 1, 1873, 

 and in October Payer landed on an island in 79 54' N. Here 

 42. Disco- a second winter was passed, and in the spring of 1874 

 Fr7nz Payer, with a sledge crew, started on a journey to 

 lam?. Map explore the newly-discovered country, named Fran-: 

 pT-er * nd J ose Ph Land. It consisted of three large masses, called 

 (R.G.s.) respectively Zichy, Wilczek, and Crown Prince Rudolph, 

 with numerous smaller islands. Payer attained a latitude of 82 

 5' N. at Cape Fligely. Finally the explorers were obliged to 

 abandon the Tegethoff, and, retreating in their boats, they safely 

 reached the Norwegian port of Vardo in September, 1874. 



34. In 1870 Captain Hall fitted out a third American expedi- 

 tion for Smith Sound, and sailed in the steamer Polaris, of 387 

 tons, in June, 1871. He entered Smith Sound in August, and 

 took the Polaris for two hundred and fifty miles up the strait 



