AUGUST 13 TO JANUARY /, i8g6 



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far to the east but that a day or two of favorable wind would 

 enable us to make up what we had lost, with something to 

 boot. 



September 22d was the second anniversary of our being 

 frozen in, and the event was celebrated with a little festivity in 

 the evening. We had reason to be satisfied with the second 

 year's drift, since w'e had advanced nearly double as far as during 

 the first year, and, if this continued, there could scarcely be any 

 doubt that we should get clear of the ice in the autumn of 1896. 



As will be seen from the following table, September 22d also 

 brought us a marked change for the better. On that day the 

 winter drift set in for good, and lasted without intermission 

 through the remainder of the year, so that between that day and 

 the second week in January we drifted from 82° 5' to 41° 41' 

 east loneitude. 



On October nth we hauled up the log-line and cut a new 

 hole for it in the ice right astern. Hitherto the log had had only 

 100 metres (54 fathoms) of line; now we gave it 300 metres (162 

 fathoms). 



After the middle of September the cold steadily increased, as 

 the following observations will show : 



