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baggage in good preservation ; and especially with all the dogs, in 

 view of the eventual object of the expedition the sledge-journey 

 round the north coast of Greenland. 



' The following day we drove down Leffert Glacier on splendid 

 snow, and reached the " Fram " on Sunday, July 2, at five in the 

 morning. 



' As might be expected, we had often considerable difficulty on 

 this trip in extricating ourselves from the crevasses in the glaciers ; 

 especially the glaciers south of Jokelfjord. The small fissures, in 

 which we ourselves and a few of the dogs were continually falling 

 for a short distance, we became so used to, that we did not take 

 much notice of them. 



' The vegetation on the west coast was everywhere luxuriant, 

 where there was bare land. We brought back with us specimens 

 of, altogether, about thirty-five species of plants, which, according 

 to Herr Simmons, are as follows : 



' Phanerogams : Saxifraga oppositifolia, Saxifraga tricuspidata, 

 Saxifraga nivalis, Saxifraga cernua, Stellaria longipes, Stellaria 

 humifusa, Cerastium alpinum, Papaver radicatum, Draba sp., 

 Oxyria digyna, Salix artica, Lugula confusa, Alopecurus alpinus, 

 and Carex foligniosa, including a couple of specimens, which are 

 not yet determined. Cassiope tetragona was observed, but no 

 specimen taken. Of cryptogams, as far as Herr Simmons 

 could determine, we brought back specimens of seven species of 

 lichen; among them Cladnua rangiferina (reindeer-moss) and 

 a kind of Cetraria ; we also collected about ten different species 

 of moss. 



' The pieces of driftwood which we brought back belonged to a 

 conifer, but of what species cannot be said for the present. 



' The vegetation at the head of Jokelfjord was very sparse. 



' We observed snow-buntings every day on the " inland-ice ; " 

 and the tracks of foxes were equally numerous, and to be seen going 

 in all directions. We saw the tracks of wolves several times, as 

 well as those of the stoat and lemming. 



' When we came to bare land, on the west side, we heard the 

 twittering of birds wherever we went, especially that of the snow- 

 bunting. We also saw here the wheat-ear (Saxicola asnanthe), and 



