CHAPTER XVII 



BACK TO ADVENT POINT 



IT is so easy to have one's tents pitched for one, and such a 

 bother to do it for one's self, especially in a wind, when 

 the canvas bulges the wrong way, all the ropes entangle them- 

 selves together, and the whole thing falls, just before the 

 main cord is fixed to its peg. The number of pegs seems 

 endless when you have to knock them in yourself, and the 

 fly, if you have one, becomes a burden. Then all your 

 things have to be put in places where they can be found, 

 and by the time that is done there is cooking to be taken 

 in hand, and everything needs seeking and finding. To 

 move our camp this day a distance of three miles involved 

 about eight hours of continuous hard work, but we thought 

 the time and labour well spent. A new prospect was before 

 us, and a new area for work was opened. 



The auspicious occasion was celebrated by a dinner, to 

 which Mr. Jorgensen came with his famulus. He brought 

 no news from the wide world, but some gossip of Advent 

 Bay. From him we first learned how Dr. Jeaffreson's party 

 came up with the weekly steamer, and landed on July 10 

 at Advent Bay. Mr. With, the manager of the Vesteraalen 

 Company, took them and their little Norwegian row-boat 

 across in the Expres to Cape Thordsen, and left them 

 there in Nordenskjold's House. Their boat, being insuffi- 

 ciently moored to the shore, was presently washed away, 

 and came drifting back to Advent Bay, where it was found. 

 The party, thus cut off from return, did not have long to 



