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right track, though it may have been unwittingly and un- 

 wilHngly. 



" The Jeannette drifted for two years in the ice, from 

 Wrangel Land to the New Siberian Islands. Three 

 years after she foundered to the north of these islands 

 there was found frozen into the drift-ice, in the neighbor- 

 hood of Julianehaab, on the southwest coast of Green- 

 land, a number of articles which appeared, from sundry 

 indubitable marks, to proceed from the sunken vessel. 

 These articles were first discovered by the Eskimo, 

 and were afterwards collected by Mr. Lytzen, Colonial 

 Manager at Julianehaab, who has given a list of them 

 in the Danish Geographical Journal iox 1885. Among 

 them the following may especially be mentioned : 



" I. A list of provisions, signed by De Long, the com- 

 mander of the Jcanjictk. 



" 2. A MS. list of the Jeannette s boats. 



" 3. A pair of oilskin breeches marked ' Louis Noros,' 

 the name of one of the Jeannette s crew, who 

 was saved. 



" 4. The peak of a cap on which, according to Lytzen's 

 statement, was written F. C. Lindemaun. The 

 name of one of the crew of the Jeannette, who 

 was also saved, was F. C. Nindemann. This 

 may either have been a clerical error on Lyt- 

 zen's part or a misprint in the Danish jour- 

 nal. 



