BOATING EXPEDITIONS IN HAVNEFJORD. 221 



Sound, and the cloudy weather, the east wind, and the dusting we 

 then had. And such an east wind as can blow in Jones Sound ! 

 In through the sound day after day, without ceasing or changing, 

 at the rate of thirty-five to forty-five feet a second. Sometimes, 

 however, it would put on an. angry spurt, and then we got it in 

 the form of squalls, which froze the very marrow in our bones. 

 When once it has given one a pain in the side, it is long before 

 one loses it again. 



Several of the members of the expedition were unwell, and 

 Peder, usually so cheerful, was particularly so. He complained of 

 pains in the chest and spat blood, and his legs began to swell. 

 It was several months before he was at all himself again. 



After snowing for several days, the snow suddenly turned to 

 rain, an east wind sprang up, and the thermometer rose to 46 

 Fahr. (8 Cent.). It was our first clear day in here, and we 

 made the most of it. Baumann, Isachsen, Fosheim and I, walked 

 through Stordalen, where the others went shooting, while I climbed 

 ' Ostkap ', or ' East Cape,' and found for certain that the land does 

 not as Inglefield says it does trend away to the north at that 

 point, but continues in a westerly direction. 



The vegetation of Stordalen was particularly rich in places, 

 and we saw many hares and ptarmigan ; in fact, there were hares 

 wherever we turned, often in companies of four or five. They and 

 ptarmigan, however, were the only game in the valley. "We shot 

 five eider-ducks and eight glaucous gulls on the way back ; all 

 of them young birds, with one exception. 



I now decided that we must row along inshore as soon as 

 possible, and put down depots of dog-food as far west as we could 

 reach, so that we might have something to depend on when we 

 took to driving. I had thought of starting on September 7, but 

 we had worn out all our boots, and as there was a great deal 

 of cobbling to be done, we did not get off before the morning 

 of September 8. 



At the same time Schei and Bay started on a trip up the fjord, 

 where they meant to spend most of their time on Fosheim's Baby ; 

 Bay was going to dredge, and Schei to geologize. They went in a 

 small rowing boat, and took one of the silk tents with them. 



