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weeks, amid circumstances the most trying that it is possible to imagine. 
In one instance the cold appears to have been intense indeed, for “ all food 
was frozen — even brandy began to freeze one night — meat in the tins or ham 
had to be chopped with the axe ; butter coitld without any fear be carried 
in the waistcoat-pocket, to be enjoyed on the march.” Still, however, they 
reached the 77th degree of latitude, which on the east coast of Greenland is a 
perfectly virgin soil. Here they terminated their journey northwards; and 
having erected a cairn, they placed in it a box containing a document 
worded as follows: ‘‘This spot, which lies in 77° 1' North latitude, and 
Ruined Esquimaux Huts and Tent-rings. 
18° 50' West longitude from Greenwich, was reached by the German Arctic 
Expedition in sledges (the last three German miles on foot), starting from 
the winter harbour by Sabine Island, after an absence from the ship of 
twenty-two days.” The return journey to the ship was as eventful as the 
one already undergone ; and after this was completed they made, among 
other excursions, one which is of some interest, to the remains of an Esqui- 
maux settlement. The following account is given of this : “ On the shore 
facing the south-west we discovered a long row of graves, heaps of stone so 
evidently built by the hand of man that they must at once strike the eye j 
