234 Swedish North-Polar Expedition. 
contained some vegetable remains, though probably of too 
indistinct a character to admit of identification. : . 
On the 2nd of September, the boat’s company and the ship, 
returning with our comrades from Kobbe Bay, met at a little 
distance off the promontory that separates Wijde Bay and 
Liebde Bay. After remaining in that bay a couple of days 
longer, the Sofia weighed anchor and touched at the now 1cé- 
free Cape Depot, in Brandewijne Bay, in order to fetch away 
the supply of pemmican that (in 1861) had been left there, 22 
iron boat, &c. e thence steered northward, with the inten- 
tion of passing round Nordostland to Giles’ Land. The 
greater part of the arm of the sea, that lies between the Seven 
Islands, Cape Platen and North Cape, which, in 1861, was 
already, in the middle of August, perfectly free from ice, we 
now, in the beginning of September, found covered with a 
firm crust of ice. It was therefore impossible to reach Giles’ ~~ 4 
Land by this route, and we were therefore obliged, after hav- 
ing for the purpose of botanical and zoological researches, 
overe 
white mantle of new-fallen snow, which, however, had 
away again without causing any hindrance to our scientific 
pursuits was to be considered as at an end. e accordingly 
turned back at Mount Lovén, in the southern part of Hin- 
