Lieutenant Carl Weyprecht, } Lieutenant Julius Payer, } _Commanders of the Expedition._ Lieutenant Gustav Brosch,[14] } Midshipman Edward Orel, } _Officers of the Ship._ Dr. Julius Kepes, _Physician to the Expedition_. Otto Krisch, _Engineer_. Pietro Lusina,[15] _Boatswain_. Antonio Vecerina, _Carpenter_. Josef Pospischill, _Stoker_. Johann Orasch, _Cook_. Johann Haller, } Alexander Klotz, } _Jägers_, from Tyrol. Antonio Zaninovich, _Seaman_. Antonio Catarinich, ditto. Antonio Scarpa, ditto. Antonio Lukinovich, ditto. Giuseppe Latkovich, ditto. Pietro Fallesich, ditto. George Stiglich, ditto. Vincenzo Palmich, ditto. Lorenzo Marola, ditto. Francesco Lettis, ditto. Giacomo Sussich, ditto. Captain Olaf Carlsen, _Icemaster and Harpooner_. We had eight dogs on board; two we got in Lapland, the rest were brought from Vienna. 8. Stormy weather detained us for some time among the Loffoden Isles, so that we made Tromsoe only on July 3. Here we were received most courteously by the Austro-Hungarian Consul, Aagaard, who invited us to a banquet. We remained here a week, in order to complete our equipment. The ship, which had leaked considerably ever since we left Bremerhaven, was thoroughly examined by divers, the stores were landed, the ship repaired and reladen. Our supply of coals was replenished, a Norwegian whale-boat added to our equipment, and, lastly, the harpooner, Captain Olaf Carlsen, was taken on board. On July 6 we received our last news from Austria, letters and newspapers. The Ukase granted by the Russian Government also arrived, drawn up both for Weyprecht and myself in case of our being separated, a document of great importance, if the ship should be lost and we had to return through Siberia; an issue only too probable when the vast length and enormous difficulties of the north-east passage were considered. While Lieutenant Weyprecht was engaged in stopping the leak of the ship, some of us ascended—a Lapp of the name of Dilkoa being our guide—a pinnacle of rock, 4,000 feet high, towering over Tromsoe’s labyrinth of fiords, in order to compare our aneroid and mercurial barometers. From the summit we beheld an enormous dark column of smoke rising perpendicularly to the height of about 1,500 feet in the still air—the northern extremity of Tromsoe was in flames. Most gladly would we have learned something of the state of the ice this year; but as yet this was impracticable, for none of the walrus hunters had returned from their grounds in the north.