The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . scarcely divided from one another by afew darker peaks, standing out yellowish-white against thedeep blue of the sky. x Lecointe says : We only sight Alexander I Land at agreat distance, without being able to form even an approximateidea of what the distance is 2—which does not prevent him,however, from publishing a view of the coast of this land anda map, in which are clearly traced the contours of the coasts,mountains, and valleys. I must hasten to add that viewand map alike agr
The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . scarcely divided from one another by afew darker peaks, standing out yellowish-white against thedeep blue of the sky. x Lecointe says : We only sight Alexander I Land at agreat distance, without being able to form even an approximateidea of what the distance is 2—which does not prevent him,however, from publishing a view of the coast of this land anda map, in which are clearly traced the contours of the coasts,mountains, and valleys. I must hasten to add that viewand map alike agree as little with the descriptions of Arc- 1 Do Gorlueho, Quinze Mois dans VAntarctique, p. 162. 1 Lccointo, Rapport scicntifiquc de la Belgica. Travaux hydrographiquet,p. 98. In his narrative, Au pays des Manchots, p. 1SH, tlie sumo author says :On February l(i, we sighted Alexander Land, discovered in 1821 by Bellings-hausen. We are no far away that we cannot even judgo the A viowof the cos i and a map are reproduced in the two works quoted and also amongUrn map f the llrlijica Expedition. 108. TIIE SUMMER OF 1908-1909 towski, a member of the Expedition, and of Bellingshausenas with that which we are in a position to write. The Bclgicds doctor, F. A. Cook, for his part, docs nothesitate to give, with a lavish display of figures and measure-ments, a detailed description (totally different from Lecointes)of what he called the Alexander Islands. But herein heis tripped up by his comrade Arctowski, who gives a fourthvarying description while confessing that we took no measure-ment and have little to add to Bellingshausens description. •What Arctowski says on the subject, moreover, (I will quoteit later) is so correct as to accord ill with the pubbshedstatements of his two colleagues. Congratulations are dueto this savant for having been the only one to give informationof any value, refusing to stray outside the bounds of honestobservation. On board the Frangais on
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