BY SLEDGE AND KAYAK 269 



my watch must have stopped for a time before April 2cl. 

 The observations from April 2d, 4th, and 8th seem, in- 

 deed, to indicate that we drifted considerably westward. 

 On the 2d we appeared to be in 103° 6' E., on the 4th 

 in 99° 59 E., and April 8th in 95" 7' E. Between these 

 dates there were no marches of importance ; between 

 the observations on the 2d and the 4th there was only 

 a short half-day's march ; and between the 4th and the 

 7th a couple, which amounted to nothing, and could only 

 •have carried us a little westward. This is as much as 

 to say that we must have drifted 8°, or let us reckon at 

 any rate 7°, westward in the six days and nights. As- 

 suming that the drift was the same durino; the five davs 

 and nights between the 8th and 13th, we then get 7° 

 farther west than we suppose. We should consequently 

 now be in 54"" E., instead of in 61° E., and not more 

 than 36 to 40 miles from Cape Fligely, and close by 

 Oscar's Land. We ought to see something of them, I 

 think. Let us assume meanwhile that the drift west- 

 ward was strong in the period before April 2d also, and 

 grant the possibility that my watch did stop at that time 

 (which, I fear, is not excluded), and we may then be any 

 distance west for all we can tell. It is this possibility 

 which I beoin to think of more and more. Meanwhile, 

 apparently there is nothing for it but to continue as we 

 have done already — perhaps a little more south — and a 

 solution must come. 



" When, after having concluded my calculations, I had 



