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west coast. It was a fjord-arm, which cut into the land in an 

 easterly direction from a larger fjord lying almost due north and 

 south. From the outer part of this fjord-arm a chain of mountains 

 of equal heights ran in a south-easterly direction. Nearer, and 

 in front of this chain, was a wide level mountain waste 

 " Braskerudflya." There was no snow, either on the waste or on 

 the mountains. In one part only of the chain was a fragment of 

 glacier to be seen hanging over the upper part of the mountain- 

 side. In the south-east the waste abutted immediately on to the 

 " inland-ice." 



' Although we greatly wished to drive down the glacier to bare 

 land, and, as we hoped, to the fjord, I thought it best, in view of 

 the orders I had received, to proceed southwards and see if we 

 could do anything in that direction. From a good point of 

 vantage* we observed that the chain of mountains stretched as 

 far as we could see to the south-east, and that they were free of 

 snow ; while at the same time they shut in the view to the west 

 and south-west. 



' In addition to the big glacier we were driving on, and which 

 extended towards the fjord-valley in a north-westerly direction, a 

 glacier from the north-east, and another from the north, converged 

 towards the before-mentioned valley. We also observed a fjord 

 running north-east, and another running north-west as far as we 

 could see. 



' Our work now was to get down from the glacier to bare land, 

 and, if possible, to the fjord. If, as there seemed to be, there was 

 vegetation, it was also to be supposed that there was game. On 

 the forenoon of June 4 we therefore set our course north-westward, 

 and, after driving seventeen miles, got comfortably down the glacier, 

 and camped on the bare land in the evening. This was the 

 first and last time on this journey that we drove during the day- 

 time ; it was an arrangement that did not answer ; the dogs were 

 less willing in the hot sunshine than they were in the cool of the 

 night, while we ourselves, having had little sleep the last few days, 

 slept for three hours instead of one when we halted for a rest. 



' The three converging glaciers fell out into a glacier-lake, and 



* Rundfjeld. 



