Excerpt from The First Crossing of Spitsbergen: Being an Account of an Inland Journey of Exploration and Survey, With Description of Several Mountain Ascents, of Boat Expeditions in Ice Fjord, of a Voyage to North-East-Land, the Seven Islands, Down Hinloopen Strait, Nearly to Wiches Land, and Into Most The maps wlzic/z accompany tlzis volume were eu graved for tlze Royal Geograp/zical Society, and are lzere reproduced oy its permission. 'two illustrations made from drawings oy Mr. 4. D. Maccormic , my old Himalayan companion, originally appeared in t/ze Alpine yournal, and I am indented to fire Editor of that puolication for permission to use tlzem. I must also not omit to tlzan Mr. Trenor - Battye for tlze drawing of Wiclzes Land w/zic/z is nere reproduced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.