38o FARTHES2' NORTH 



we usually found in the morning, a great quantity of 

 ice had drifted in in the course of the night — great, flat, 

 and thin floes, which had settled themselves in front of 

 us — and it looked as if we should have hard work to get 

 out into open water. Things went a little better than 

 we expected, however, and we got through before it 

 closed in entirely. In front of us now lay open water 

 right past the promontory far ahead ; the weather was 

 good, and everything seemed to promise a successful 

 day. As it began to blow a little from the fjord, and we 

 hoped it might become a sailing-wind, we put in beside 

 a little rocky island, which looked just like a great stone* 

 sticking up out of the sea, and there rigged up mast and 

 sail. But the sailing- wind came to nothing, and we 

 were soon obliged to unrig and take to paddling. We 

 had not paddled far when the wind went round to the 

 opposite quarter, the southwest. It increased rapidl3^ 

 and soon the sea ran high, the sky became overcast in 

 the south, and it looked as if the weather might become 

 stormy. We were still several miles from the land on 

 the other side of the fjord, and we might have many 

 hours of hard paddling before we gained it. This land, 

 too, looked far from inviting, as it lay there, entirely 



which Jackson saw and took to be " King Oscar Land." In consequence 

 of his having seen them from only one point (his Cape Fisher), due south, 

 in 8i°, he has placed them 40' too far north, in 82*^), having overestimated 

 their distance. (See his map in the Geographical Joiinial, Vol. VII., No. 6, 

 December, 1896, London.) 



* Called Steinen on the map. 



