84 VISIT TO SPITZBERGEN 



drift wood and proved to be a very good cook. Ice in 

 evening coming down Fjord and getting aground just 

 below our camp. Very cold at night. Guillemots and 

 Little Auks flying high overhead to cliffs 3 or 4 miles 

 inland, 



July 12. In boats to Advent Bay. Found an old 

 Russian Hut with smoke coming out of chimney. On 

 landing found 3 Norwegians, who with 7 others had been 

 shipwrecked off Pr. Charles' Foreland about six weeks 

 before ; the other 7 had gone on board a jagt they met. 

 These three came on here to shoot Deer. They looked 

 pretty happy, though one had a frightful abscess on his 

 arm. They had lost their reckoning and asked the day 

 of the month and week ! Saw Deer on other side of Bay. 

 Birkbeck and M. Sutton after them in skiff. B. missed 

 again. Dr. Lorange, and I in whale-boat towards head 

 of Bay, find some fast ice and a flock of Brent ; I had a 

 shotwith M. S.'s big rifle, but missed. Lots of Eiders and 

 N. Pufnns. Just as we came to land saw 3 deer on hill 

 not 500 yards off. Two minutes after Birkbeck came 

 round stalking them ; M. S. and Norwegian followed. 

 Birkbeck knocked over two, right and left, but one got 

 up again and with the third trotted of! slowly towards a 

 pass where the Norwegian lay. He killed the unwounded 

 one and then showing himself drove the wounded deer 

 down to where I was with the Dr. and Lorange. The 

 latter got tremendously excited and though it was quite 

 clear the poor beast was done for, could not be restrained 

 from shooting it again, hitting it in the haunch ! Im- 

 mediately afterwards he rushed upon it with his rifle 

 clubbed to hit it on the head, but Birkbeck and I called at 

 him so that he gave up that idea and took to stoning it. 

 At last the Dr. came up and throwing the beast stuck it. 

 After that we pitched the tent. B. again went after 

 another deer, but returned without a shot. Just before 

 turning in I shot an Ivory Gull. Not quite so cold that 

 night, but we saw the ice coming back up the Fjord, and 

 next morning at 5 a.m., we found a thick fog and the 

 Bay full of ice. B. off again after Deer, while we struck 



