of the many
mistakes which so readily find their way into the news of the day. ]

[Footnote 177: Petermann's _Mittheilungen_, 1871, p. 97. Along with
Ulve's, Mack's, and Quale's voyages, Petermann refers to a voyage
round Novaya Zemlya by T. Torkildsen. In this case, however,
Petermann was exposed to a possibly unintended deception.
Torkildsen, who visited the Polar Sea for the first time in 1870,
indeed made the voyage round Novaya Zemlya, but only as a rescued
man on Johannesen's vessel. Torkildsen's own vessel, the _Alfa_, had
been wrecked on the 13th July at the bottom of Kara Bay, after which
the skipper and six men were saved by Johannesen, yet by no means so
that Torkildsen, as is stated by Petermann, had the least command of
the vessel that saved him. (Cf. _Tromsoe Stiftstidende_, 1871, No. 23.) ]

[Footnote 178: _Tromsoe Stiftstidende_, 1871, No. 83; Petermann's
_Mittheilungen_, 1872, p. 384. ]

[Footnote 179: Cf. _The Three Voyages of William Barents_, by Gerrit
de Veer, 2nd Edition, with an Introduction by Lieutenant Koolemaens
Beynen. London, 1876 (Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, No. 54). ]

[Footnote 180: The sea in the neighbourhood of Spitzbergen on the
east was on the other hand very open that year, so that it was
possible for the same time to reach and circumnavigate the large
island situated to the east of Spitzbergen, which had been seen in
1864 by Duner and me from the top of White Mount in the interior of
Stor Fjord. ]

[Footnote 181: Nor does space permit me to give an account of
various expeditions, which indeed concerned Novaya Zemlya, but did
not penetrate farther eastward than their predecessors; for
instance, the Rosenthal expedition of 1871, in which the well-known
African traveller and Spitzbergen voyager Baron von Heuglin, and the
Norwegian botanist Aage Aagaard, took part as naturalists; Payer and
Weyprecht's voyage of reconnaissance in the sea between Spitzbergen
and Novaya Zemlya in 1871, &c. ]

[Footnote 182: Kongl. _Svenska Vetenskaps-akademiens
handlingar_, 1869. ]

[Footnote 183: At Mussel Bay, too, during the winter of 1872-73, the
greatest deg. of cold was the same; that is to say, at neither
place did it reach the freezing-point of mercury. At the _Vega's_
winter station, on the contrary, it was considerably greater. ]

[Footnote 184: It is very common that the hunters in cases of
importance and danger when it is difficult to settle what course
ought to be taken, p