The recent German Arctic Hepeditions. 51 
attained. The ice-sea fisheries have taken an important advance, 
so that Norwegian fishermen have gained a revenue which realized 
a dividend of 57 per cent., and in addition most valuable scien- 
tific observations and discoveries have been made. 
Captain Koldeweg has lately expressed himself publicly that 
he was quite of Capt. Osborn’s opinion in regard to a North-polar 
expedition, he believing the route through Smith’s Sound altogether 
he b ut I do not think that he will obtain from anyone the 
money for a German expedition, which is to be prosecuted accord- 
ing to an English plan, abandoned by the English themselves, and 
for which he nevertheless considers two steam vessels and an 
Contrasted with the last expedition led by Koldeweg, the cour- 
ve 
been recognized, even if they had had little success, because they 
set out with the most scanty means and merely a little hired Nor- 
Wegian sailing vessel, while Koldeweg started with two fine ships 
elegantly fitted up. The latter, with steam vessels, in two sum- 
Mers, merely reached to 75° 31’ N, lat., only 4° farther than Clay- 
ering 47 years before, and with sledges to 77° 1’ N. lat., while 
Payer and Weyprecht with the little sailing vessel, in that formid- 
able sea, sailed to 79° N. lat., a distance, compared with their prede- 
cessors in that search, which exceeded at least tenfold those with 
Koldeweg. 
The telegram which announced the return of Payer and Wey- 
precht from the extreme north to Trompsoé on the 3d of October, 
reads literally : “ September offenes Meer von 42° bis 60° Oestlicher 
* Hansa, 1871, No 10, §. 92. 
