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tying up their dogs. Isachsen came running down across the 

 crack to meet me, and my splendid load made him open his eyes. 

 We thought ourselves very fine fellows as we drove up with our 

 big loads of meat with the skins thrown over them. 



We took up our abode in the boat-house and lived well on 

 fresh meat, which we cooked in various ways. By way of pudding 

 we had ' dsenge,' which is so excellent a sweet that I can safely 

 recommend it to any housewife. We prepared it by taking some 

 of the water-logged biscuit, which we beat into small pieces, and 

 soaked in water. We then fried it in fat, adding a pinch of salt, 

 and a generous portion of treacle. These ingredients may be 

 supplemented with advantage by some of the Norwegian ' mysost,' 

 or whey-cheese, for want of which we used whey-powder. 



Over our pipes after supper we related the adventures of the 

 day ; the fjord where they had taken place we named ' Moskusfjord,' 

 or ' Musk Fjord.' 



There being open water in the west, Isachsen was unable 

 to do his surveying work here, so it was agreed that he should 

 drive the meat still remaining in Moskusfjord down to a place on 

 the shore where it could easily be reached, even if the sledge- 

 runners were shod with only German-silver. A load was then to 

 be driven on board as quickly as possible, but before starting a 

 guide was necessary, and although Bay's feet were wet, and his 

 sleeping-bag had been soaked through the previous night out at 

 Baadsfjordnuten, he immediately volunteered to go, while Hassel 

 joined my party. 



In the afternoon there had been a great hanging up of the 

 bags to dry inside the house, and their condition improved some- 

 what as the result of it, but on the whole there was not very 

 much to be done with them. 



Fosheim had driven the mate's team on this occasion, and in it 

 was a criminal by name 'Gamlen.' When we turned out next 

 morning, October 30, to help the two who were going west, we 

 discovered that ' Gamlen ' had got his muzzle off, and had bitten 

 'Underbete,' one of Peder's dogs, to death. 'Underbete' had 

 received his name from a peculiarity of the jaw his upper jaw, 

 namely, projecting very much beyond the lower one, so that 

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