550 FARTHEST NORTH 



have glittered so that they were taken for glaciers along 

 a continuous coast. I can all the more easily understand 

 this mistake, as I was myself on the point of falling into 

 it. As before related, if the weather had not cleared on 

 the evening of June iith, enabling us to discern the 

 sound between Northbrook Island and Peter Head (Al- 

 exandra Land), we should have remained under the im- 

 pression that we had here continuous land, and should 

 have represented it as such in mapping this region. 



Mr. Jackson and I frequently discussed the naming of 

 the lands we had explored. I asked him whether he 

 would object to my naming the land on which I had 

 wintered " Frederick Jackson's Island," as a small token 

 of our gratitude for the hospitality he had shown us. 

 We had made the discovery that this island was sepa- 

 rated by sounds from the land farther north which Payer 

 had named Karl Alexander Land. F'or the rest, I re- 

 frained from giving names to any of the places which 

 Jackson had seen before I saw them. 



The country around Cape Flora proved to be very 

 interesting from the geological point of view, and as 

 often as time permitted I investigated its structure, 

 either alone, or more frequently in company with the 

 doctor and geologist of the English expedition, Dr. 

 Koetlitz. Many an interesting excursion did we make 

 together up and down those steep moraines in search of 

 fossils, which in certain places we found in great numbers. 

 It appeared that from the sea-level up to a height of 



