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continue their seal-hunting. This second undertaking 

 during the southern summer of 1893-4 on ly took 

 Larsen into the waters surrounding Joinville Island, and 

 added nothing to his observations as an explorer in these 

 regions. On the 16th of January he had started from 

 Port Stanley in the Falkland Isles, on the 12th of March 

 the 60th parallel of latitude was re-crossed on the 

 return voyage, and on the 15th of March Port Stanley 

 was aofain reached. 



If Larsen thus became the discoverer of the probable 

 east coast of Graham's Land, and verified its great ex- 

 tension to the south, Evensen no less could point to 

 important results achieved by the Her t ha. He had 

 sighted the South Shetland Isles on the 1st of November 

 and seen his first iceberg on the same day in latitude 

 6i° 56' S. and longitude 58° 32' W., while sailing south 

 south-west and south-west and afterwards passing Decep- 

 tion Island and Low Island. Here he steered along the 

 Biscoe Islands, and was surprised by the the unusual 

 circumstance that no ice was seen from the 3rd to the 

 9th of November. On the 9th of November the Ant- 

 arctic circle was crossed, on the 10th Adelaide Island was 

 sighted, drift-ice being met at the same time, and on 

 the following day the edge of the pack lying east was 

 encountered. Evensen steered south along this edge as 

 far as latitude 68° 18' S. and longitude 73° 41' W., which the 

 vessel reached on the 12th of November. Now he again 

 steered north, and again along the Biscoe Islands, then 

 through the northern portion of the group to the east, 

 and then south on the western side, attaining his highest 

 latitude of 69° ic/ S. in longitude 76° 12' \V. without any 

 hindrance from ice. Alexander Land came in sight on 

 the 22nd November ; it was surrounded by pack-ice, but 

 unfortunately we hear nothing of any observations con- 

 cerning its highly probable connection with Graham's 

 Land. Again Evensen steered to the north-west on the 



