160 TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. 



clothes, everything wet through from the gale of 

 the day before, during which the Hope had been 

 dragging her anchor all round Altglaubigen Bay. 

 They had made straight for Admiralty Peninsula on 

 leaving Franz Josef Land, but being stopped by the 

 ice, had been obliged to keep more to the west and 

 after many adventures had cleared the ice ninety 

 miles S.-W. of Matotchkin Sharr, and then had been 

 driven by a gale of wind right into the arms of their 

 deliverers, with but a few days' provisions left. 

 Their ship was lost on August 21st ; they lost the 

 sun on October 21st; the sun returned on February 

 21st; they left Franz Josef Land on June 21st; and 

 lastly, we landed the whole crew, officers and men 

 complete, at Aberdeen on August 21st, on the anni- 

 versary of the loss of their ship. 



