5IO FARTHEST NORTH 



On Friday, June 12th, we started again at 4 a.m. with 

 sails on our sledges. There had been frost, so the snow 

 was in much better condition again. It had been very- 

 windy in the night, too, so we hoped for a good day. 

 On the preceding day it had cleared up so that we could 

 at last see distinctly the lands around. We now discov- 

 ered that we must steer in a more westerly direction than 

 we had done during the preceding days, in order to reach 

 the south point of the land to the west. The lands to 

 the east disappeared eastward, so we had said good-bye 

 to them the day before. We now saw, too, that there 

 was a broad sound in the land to the west,*' and that it 

 was one entire land, as we had taken it to be. The land 

 north of this sound was now so far away that I could 

 only just see it. In the meantime the wind had dropped 

 a good deal ; the ice, too, became more and more uneven 

 — it was evident that we had come to the drift-ice, and it 

 was much harder work than we had expected. We could 

 see by the air that there must be open water to the south, 

 and as we went on we heard, to our joy, the sound of 

 breakers. At 6 a.m. we stopped to rest a little, and on 

 going up on to a hummock to take a longitude observa- 

 tion I saw the water not far off. From a higher piece of 

 o[lacier-ice we could see it better. It extended towards 

 the promontory to the southwest. Even though the wind 

 had become a little westerly now, we still hoped to be able 



* The sound between Northbrook Island and Bruce Island on the one 

 side and Peter Head, on Alexandra Land, on the other side. 



