STORM-BOUND ON THE WALRUS 



monuments, at first with horns at their summits, 

 but a httle later showing truncated surfaces hke 

 the tops of pedestals. Finer fjord scenery it would 

 be hard to imagine. 



At about half past ten we passed suddenly from 

 the grand scenery of the coastland zone with its 

 sharply angular features into a country of gently 

 moulded contours, and we at once realized that on 

 a new section we had passed into the great hinter- 

 land of two glaciations, just as before in the sum- 

 mer of 1926 when we had entered the gateway of 

 Taserssuak. 



The wind now blowing up the fjord from the 

 sea we hoisted sail and made good headway as the 

 tide was also running with us. In choosing this 

 fjord for the base of our Greenland weather sta- 

 tion it has been necessary to assume a considerable 

 risk, for no maps exist which tell us anything of 

 the country once the fjord has been left behind. 

 Are we again to be disappointed in our search for 

 a suitable site? We have our entire outfit on the 

 overloaded Walrus and the fjord up which we 

 are now sailing has seemed to offer the only re- 

 maining opportunity within this part of Greenland 

 of reaching by vessel the area close to the ice-cap. 

 As we get closer and closer to the head of the 

 fjord it begins to look as though we were to meet 



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