. Round about the North pole . ling, the former being madeof camlet lined with racoon skin, and the latter ofstrong blue, box cloth. We made a point of alwaysputting on the same stockings and boots for travellingin, whether they had dried during the day or not, andI believe it was only in five or six instances that theywere not either still wet or hard frozen. When haltedfor rest the boats were placed alongside each other,with their sterns to the wind, the snow or wet clearedout of them, and the sails, held up by the bamboomasts and three paddles, were placed over them asawnings with the entra
. Round about the North pole . ling, the former being madeof camlet lined with racoon skin, and the latter ofstrong blue, box cloth. We made a point of alwaysputting on the same stockings and boots for travellingin, whether they had dried during the day or not, andI believe it was only in five or six instances that theywere not either still wet or hard frozen. When haltedfor rest the boats were placed alongside each other,with their sterns to the wind, the snow or wet clearedout of them, and the sails, held up by the bamboomasts and three paddles, were placed over them asawnings with the entrance at the bow. Progress was not great, sometimes fifty yards an hour,occasionally twelve miles a day, that is on the ice, forsoon it was apparent that the distance gained byreckoning was greater than that given by observation,and Parry realised to his dismay that the pack wasdrifting south while he was going north. But hekept on till on the 21st of July he reached 82° 45,which remained the farthest north for TORELL AND NORDENSKIOLD 43 During the last few days he had been drifting southin the day almost as far as he had advanced north inthe night, and, having used up half his provisions, hereluctantly abandoned the struggle as hopeless. Aswe travelled, he says, by far the greater part of ourdistance on the ice, three, and not infrequently, fivetimes over, we may safely multiply the road by 2\;so that our whole distance, on a very moderate cal-culation, amounted to five hundred and eighty geo-graphical miles, or six hundred and sixty-eight statutemiles ; being nearly sufficient to have reached the Polein a direct line. In 1858 a Swedish expedition under Otto Torellstarted from Hammerfest for Spitsbergen. He wasaccompanied by A. Quennerstedt and Adolf ErikNordenskiold. They explored Horn Sound, BellSound, and Green Harbour. In Bell Sound theydredged with great success for mollusca; they made abotanical collection, chiefly of mosses and lichens,found tertiary pl
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