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A VOYAGE TO SPITZBEEGEN . 
at this time being 82° 14' 28", and onr longitude by 
chronometers 22° 4' E. 
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“ On the 15th, in proceeding over the floe, on which 
we had slept, we found it alternately level and ‘ hum¬ 
mocky/ the former affording sufficiently good travel¬ 
ling to allow us to carry all our baggage at one journey 
with great ease, one boat’s crew occasionally assisting 
the other for a few yards together; but the hummocks 
cost us immense labour, nothing but a “ bowline 
haul ” being sufficient, with all our hands, to get the 
boats across or between them. At eight the rain 
again became heavier, and we got under shelter of 
our awnings for a quarter of an hour, to keep our 
shirts and other flannel clothes dry ; these being the 
only things we now had on which were not thoroughly 
wet. At nine we did the same, but before ten were 
obliged to halt altogether, the rain coming down in 
torrents, and the men being much exhausted by 
continued wet and cold, though the thermometer was 
at 36°, which was somewhat above our usual tempera¬ 
ture. 
“ The wind shifted to the W.S.W. in the afternoon, 
and the rain was succeeded by a thick fog, after it had 
been falling for thirty hours out of the last thirty-one. 
At half-past seven p.m. we again pursued our journey, 
