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vessel, was thus taken up with hunting and short excursions to Pendulum 
Island, until July 10th when open water compelled us to remain on Bass 
Rock. We often climbed to the very top of the rock and noticed that 
it was covered with small angular and quite thin stone-slabs, never 
more than 10 4 15cm in extent. The same kind of stone-slabs were 
seen in other places on the top of basalt mountains, but hardly ever 
down their slopes. 
Our period of waiting came to an end on July 19th, when in the 
early morning the Norwegian steamer “Sjéblomsten” Capt. LILLENES 
arrived at Bass Rock. We went to Cape Philip Broke onboard the 
steamer, but failing to find walrus the ship headed south for Gael Ham- 
kes Bay. 
All of July 20th was spent in Gael Hamkes Bay, which was quite 
open as far in as to Cape Stosch, where progress was stopped by un- 
broken ice. We could, however, see that the Inlandice encircled Jordan 
Hill Island and barred the fjord along a line from Cape Blosseville — 
Cape Oetker, almost to Loch Fine. 
The return-journey was begun on July 20th at 5 a.m., and the 
pack-ice, when we reached it about 20 miles off land, was very slack 
and consisted of quite small floes, the breadth of the belt of pack-ice 
not exceeding 75 miles on a true SE-course. The open water was reached 
on July 21st at 8 a.m., and we arrived in Aalesund on July 28th 1912. 
