The recent German Arctic Expeditions, — 53 
was observed by the mariners Simonsen, Mattiesen, ete., this year, 
as too before, as almost completely free from ice, and when the 
i succeed in di ing i 
fo not su in discovering in the neighorhood of 
the White Island the ice on which the capture of the walrus 
depends, yet in the autumn the connection of the open Nova Zem- 
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bla sea with the Polynia of northern Siberia has been as good as 
proved. But with this discovery, an imme 
appears from our charts. It will certainly be represented that the 
unusually unfavorable” years. But throughout Norway the 
walrus-hunters and fishermen unite in ealling the past summer 
absolutely the worst which has been known for a long time. If 
age here in Norway, to the very deficient fitting of the Germania. 
well 
Sive this ship, which, however, belongs to 1869-70, an impartial 
oop 
' D | oting 
former ones, The solution Of the riddle lies simply in this fact, 
that almost all expeditions to this region of the sea have started 
