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if there were people here we could scarcely be on Gil- 

 lies Land or a new land, as we had believed all the win- 

 ter. We must, after all, be on the south side of Franz 

 Josef Land, and the suspicion I had had a few days ago 

 was correct, namely, that we had come south through 



FRANZ JOSEF LAND 



an unknown sound and out between Hooker Island and 

 Northbrook Island, and were now off the latter, in spite 

 of the impossibility of reconciling our position with 

 Payer's map. 



" It was with a strange mixture of feelinos that I 



