Note 62 — Chapter IX · FIRST MONTH OF THE YEAR 1870.[58]

After Dr. Börgen had been for some time under Dr. Pansch’s hands, he remembered that he had the pocket-chronometer (one of Felsing’s, of Bremen) with him; so, as it had not come on board, Dr. Copeland and a guard went in search of it, and found it fast frozen to the surface of the ice. It had gone on for some time after its fall, but had stopped at last, owing to the intensity of the cold. After warming it in the hand, it went on again for some seconds.