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ing skies damped any enthusiasm there might have been 

 for it. We worked at our preparations in silence with 

 shivering limbs. 



Presently the little twelve-ton steamer Expi'es also came to 

 anchor in the bay. She, like the Lofoten, was run by the 

 Vesteraalen Company for the convenience of tourists. The 



THE " EXPRES IN ADVENT BAY. 



arrangements were these : Each week the Lofoten left 

 Hammerfest with a complement of passengers, showed them 

 Bear Island and the west coast of South Spitsbergen, and 

 brought them to Advent Bay. Those who desired might 

 disembark and make the inn their headquarters for a week. 

 During this time the Expj-es gave them an opportunity of 

 running up to see Andree's balloon at Danes Island, or 

 making some other excursion. On this occasion she had 



