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1 This was a slip of the pen; it ought to be 102° east longitude.

2 Jackson’s “Cape M’Clintock.”

3 Jackson, who saw it in the spring of 1895, called it Mary Elizabeth Island.

4 Jackson’s “Cape Fisher.”

5 This was on the south side of Jackson’s “Cape Richthofen,” the most northerly point which Jackson had reached earlier the same spring.

6 It proved afterwards to be “Hooker Island.”

7 It proved to be “Northbrook Island.”

8 The sound between Northbrook Island and Bruce Island on the one side and Peter Head, on Alexandra Land, on the other side.

9 Cape Barents.

10 The ice-foot is the part of a floe which often projects into the water under the surface. It is formed through the thawing of the upper part of the ice in the summer-time by the warmer surface layer of the sea.

11 He had reached Cape Richthofen, about 35 miles to the south of us.

12 We had not any nautical almanac for 1896, and had hitherto used the almanac for the previous year.

13 New Lands within the Arctic Circle. By J. Payer, Vol. II., p. 129.

14 Where they are generally called diabases.

15 Leigh Smith had already brought back from Spitzbergen a fossil cone, which Carruthers classified as a Pinus; but he regarded it as belonging to the upper part of the cretaceous system.

16 I did not dream that Sverdrup a year after would be in command of this steamer.

17 Jackson had brought with him several Russian horses, which he had used along with dogs on his sledge expeditions. Only one of these horses was alive at the time of our arrival.