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not be certain. A good many Fulmars and Kittiwakes during 

 the forenoon. Two or three Richardson's Skuas ; no Glaucous 

 Gulls ; three Briinnich's Guillemots together, one being a young 

 bird, and two or three more of this species afterwards; a few 

 Little Auks during the day. 



September 4. Lat. at noon, 76° 27', long. E. G. 19° 5'. Tem- 

 perature, 8 a.m., press. 749, air 3308, water 3092 ; noon, press. 

 749, air 35*96, water 30*92. — At 3 a.m., Syd Kap, Spitzbergen, 

 sighted ; at 4 it bore N. four miles. A good deal of drift-ice 

 about, and one veritable berg — computed by Arnesen to be thirty 

 or forty feet above the water — passed us some distance off to 

 starboard, coming from the east side of Spitzbergen. We passed 

 close to a piece not less than ten feet above the water, and all 

 sizes less than this. As our object was to attempt to reach Hope 

 Island, in hope of "fangst" ("game" perhaps gives the English 

 equivalent of the word, or, in the case of amateur hunters like 

 ourselves, "sport"), our course now lay to the east. We had to 

 tack once or twice to avoid pack-ice, and at 4.45 p.m. went about 

 to W. by S. to avoid the pack, and half an hour later, a fog having 

 come on, — so thick that we could not see the length of the vessel 

 in any direction, — we laid her aback, and she slowly drifted in an 

 E.S.E. direction. At 8 p.m. we had to make sail again, to avoid 

 the pack to the S.S.E. of us, and then, at 11 p.m., laid her aback 

 again. A few Fulmars, Little Auks, and Kittiwakes during the 

 day. We steered during the greater part of the day E., to about 

 long. 21° 50', when we encountered the pack trending about 

 N. by W., S. by E. 



September 5. Lat. at noon, 77° 10', long. E. G. 20° 50'. Tem- 

 perature, noon, press. 7535, air 32*36, water 28*76; 0.45 p.m., 

 full sunshine, press, do., air 33*62, water do.; 8.25 p.m., press. 

 751 '5, air 31*82, water do. — A real Arctic summer's day. At 

 3 a.m. sailed N. by W. ; at 4 turned N.N.W. for eight miles ; 

 at 6 altered our course to about N. by E. Edge Island, other- 

 wise known as Stans Foreland, was sighted about 8 a.m., 

 Whale Point being the first headland seen, and shortly after- 

 wards Negro Point (= Black Point). Half an hour later Hope 

 Island was sighted. The true position of this island has 

 been ascertained (by, I think, Graf Wilczck) to have its south- 

 westernmost point in N. lat. 76° 29', long. E. G. 25°, instead of 

 the position further to the N.E. in which it appears in the charts. 



