New lands within the Arctic circle: Narrative of the discoveries of the Austrian ship "Tegetthoff" in the years 1872-1874Payer, Julius
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New lands within the Arctic circle: Narrative of the discoveries of the Austrian ship "Tegetthoff" in the years 1872-1874
Payer, Julius
Admiral Tegetthoff (Ship); Arctic regions; Franz Josef Land (Russia) -- Discovery and exploration
10 light oars.
2 long steering oars.
1 sail and mast.
1 ice-anchor.
2 boat-hooks.
1 harpoon and line.
1 fishing-line.
1 small hatchet.
1 ice-borer.
1 screw-driver.
1 caulking-iron.
1 saw.
6 reserve sledge screws.
1 bag of nails.
2 Lefaucheux rifles.
1 Werndl rifle.
1 case with 100 shot cartridges.
1 case with 50 ditto.
2 cases of 50 Lefaucheux cartridges.
25 Werndl cartridges.
8 sledge traces.
6 lamps.
6 weights for measuring provisions.
2 pairs of reindeer shoes.
2 oil cans.
1 bag of nails.
20 boxes of lucifer matches.
1 steel and tinder.
1 compass.
1 sextant.
1 bundle of wicks.
1 telescope.
1 signal horn.
1 50-fathom line.
1 box of lard.
1 pair of tin-cutters.
1 grindstone.
3 bungs.
_Spare Clothes._
1 pair of drawers.
1 shirt.
1 woollen undershirt.
1 pair of trousers.
1 spirit measure.
1 pair of scales.
1 spirit can.
1 lever.
1 funnel.
To each boat was attached a large sledge thus laden:—
Pemmican—4 boxes of 50 lbs. 200
” 1 box of 25 lbs. 25
” 4 boxes of 5 lbs. 20
---- 245
Peasmeal—2 chests of 100 lbs. packed in tin 200
” 1 chest of 100 lbs. packed in paper 100
---- 300
Potted Meat—1 chest of 80 lbs. 80
Boiled Beef—5 chests of 10 tins of 7½ lbs. 375
” ” 4 ” 7½ lbs. 30
---- 405
Flour—3 boxes of 33 lbs. 99
Bread—2 bags of 83 lbs. 166
Chocolate—3 boxes of 30 lbs. 90
Spirits—3 casks, each weighing 77 lbs. 231
Salt—1 box of 12 lbs. 12
Extract of Meat—2 boxes of 5 lbs. 10
Tea—1 box of 3 lbs. 3
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Total 1641
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To this must be added 100 lbs. of bread for the dogs, and a shovel and a
complete cooking apparatus for each sledge. Our load therefore amounted
in provisions alone to about 50 cwt., and including everything, to about
90 cwt. Parry, with twenty-eight men, in 1827 had for his journey of
sixty-one days two boats and four sledges, carrying a total weight of
75 cwt.—about 2½ cwt. therefore for each man. Notwithstanding great
obstacles from the ice, his expedition was, perhaps, more favoured than
ours, for he passed over 1½ degrees of latitude in thirty days.
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