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THE THREE CROWNS FROM KINGS BAY. 



CHAPTER XXII 



THE WESTERN BAYS OF SPITSBERGEN 



TURNING sharply to the west, at the mouth of Wijde 

 Bay, we headed for the Norways. I just looked into 

 Liefde Bay, with its numerous islands, and surroundings of 

 black and white hills, glanced at the low land of Welcome 

 Point and Red Beach, then went below and fell immedi- 

 ately asleep. The Expres travelled steadily along, passing 

 between the Norways, then south of Cloven Cliff and 

 Vogelsang, and so through Dutch Bay to where Herr 

 Andree's ship lay at anchor in Danes Gat. I awoke to 

 find the Expres anchored alongside of the Virgo at four 

 A.M. on August 10, after a voyage that was in some respects 

 as memorable as it was delightful and interesting. 



A few hours' respite from travel were both necessary 

 and desirable — necessary, because the Expres needed coal 

 and the Virgo's people were asleep ; desirable, because our 

 powers of observation were jaded with new scenes, and 

 needed time to recruit. At the Virgo's breakfast hour the 

 skipper came over to make inquiries, on the part of Herr 

 Andree, as to the winds we had recently encountered. We 

 could only report a tolerably continuous breeze from the 

 south, except for the local northerly blast up W T ijde Bay. 



