24 G. Amdrup. 



several times in beset in the iee and at last un September 5th could 

 not get free. The Hansa was then about 74° N. lat. and 17° W. long, 

 but little more than .SO miles from Sabine Island and would probably 

 have been able to reach the land had it been a steam ship. The ship 

 now drifted southwards along the coast. On September 14th already 

 at ca. 731/2° N. lat. all the water round about the Hansa had frozen. 

 Hegemann now saw, that they could not escape spending the winter 

 on the ice and all preparations were made for such an eл'entuality. 

 On October 13th they sighted Liverpool Coast at a distance of only 

 16 miles. The nearness of the land has evidently increased the pressure 

 of the ice, for on October 19th the Hansa sprung a leak and in the 

 night between the 21st and 22nd the ship sank at 70°ô2' N. lat. The 

 crew were now- obliged to take to a large ice-field, on which previously 

 a house had been built of brickets, the coal intended for the Germania. 

 The crew now drifted w'th the ice-field down along the east coast and 

 after many dangers and great hardships only arrived at Frederiksdal on 

 the west coast on June 13th 1870 1. About New Year the ice-field 

 drifted so close in under land, that the crew could make out a large 

 bay containing several islands. The crew expected, that their ice-field 

 would be crushed against the land and they therefore called the bay 

 "Skrækkens Bugt" (ca. 66°50') 2. 



On the following day after the vessels had parted the Germania 

 stood through the ice and on July 29th came in sight of Cape Broer 

 Ruys at 73°02' N. lat. at a distance of over 70 miles. As it proved 

 impossible, however, to reach in to the coast at this latitude, Koldewey 

 again stood out of the ice, followed the ice-edge northwards and on 

 July 31st again made his way into the ice at about 74° N. lat. This 

 time success followed him and on August öth the Germania anchored 

 in "Griper Road" on Sabine Island. From here a number of excursions 

 were made, among others to Cape Wynn. 



As the intention was to reach a high northern latitude, according 

 to the instructions prepared for Koldewey by Petermann, the 

 Germania raised anchor again on the 11th and stood northwards 

 along the east side of Shannon Island, but was stopped at 75'^ЗО.Г)' N. 



* The crew of tlie Hansa were not the first castaways, wliu had drifted with 

 the ice down along the east coast of Greenland. For example, it may just be 

 mentioned, that no less than 28 whalers were enclosed in the ice between 74° 

 and 75° N. lat. in the year 1777. Of these 12 could not get free again, but were 

 one after another crushed in the ice as they drifted southwards. The crews of 

 two of them were saved onboard two ships which later got free, whilst of the crews 

 of the other 1(1 whalers, in all about 460 men, no less than about 320 perished. 

 The remaining 120 or so who escaped death managed gradually to reacli the 

 west coast of Greenland and from there returned home to Europe. 



С NoRMAKN. En Rejse langs Grönlands Ostkyst i Aaret 1777. Geo- 

 graphisk Tidsskrift. Bd. 2, 1878, p. 49. 



^ Skrækkens Bugt = Terror Bay. 



