CHAPTER XXXII 
FRANZ JOSEF LAND AND ITS EXPLORERS 
The cruise in the Isbjorn was preparatory to a 
successful effort on the part of Lieutenants Payer and 
Weyprecht to raise funds for an Arctic expedition. Their 
plan was to round the north end of Novaya Zemlya and 
make discoveries to the eastward. Their vessel, the 
Tegethoff, fitted out at Bremershaven, was a steamer of 
200 tons and 100 h.-p., with a crew of 22 men. They 
left Bremershaven on the 13th June, 1872, and sighted 
Novaya Zemlya on the 3rd August. By October the 
Tegethoff was closely and hopelessly beset, drifting about 
at the mercy of wind and tide, to the north of Novaya 
Zemlya. In the summer of 1873 the crew were fully 
engaged in seal hunting ; and on the 30th August an 
entirely unknown land was sighted in 79 0 43' N. and 
59° 33' E. In November an island was reached by a party 
from the ship, and then the explorers entered upon their 
second winter of 1873-74. 
Weyprecht cared most for his meteorological and 
magnetic observations, but Payer was very eager to 
explore the newly-discovered land, which received the 
name of Franz Josef Land. Payer paid a just tribute 
to M'Clintock in attributing such success as he attained 
to following the great sledge traveller's advice. He pre- 
pared for a month's journey, taking four sacks of provisions 
each containing sufficient for seven days for seven men, 
and they succeeded in obtaining some bear meat. He is 
clear as to the comfort of hot grog in the intense cold 
of the night. The sledging party, with dogs as auxiliaries, 
started on March 25th, and on April 12th, 1874, the 
furthest point was reached in 82 0 5'N., 165 miles from 
the ship. They returned to the Tegethoff on the 25th 
April, and some shorter excursions were afterwards made. 
Payer's general idea of this great discovery was that 
Franz Josef Land consisted of two masses of land, which 
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