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nearly stopped all further progress. We were very glad when, 

 not long afterwards, we were able to turn across the crack 

 again ; and this we followed all the way along under the cliffs 

 until we suddenly discovered a long fjord which cut into the 

 land in a northerly direction. A short distance up it was a 

 little island, and inside of this it appeared as if the fjord sent 

 out a branch in a north-easterly direction. Later on, however, 

 it proved that this was a valley which extended across to 

 Moskusfjord. 



The pressure-ice lay high and rugged along the coast, and turned 

 into the fjord in a large curve; but this time we cheated it by 

 simply driving in a still larger curve, and thus avoided it in most 

 satisfactory fashion. 



At the western headland we had the same trouble over again. 

 The pressure-ice lay close in to land, and there was nothing for 

 it but to take to the ice-foot again. The upheaval here had been 

 so violent that in many places the ridges lay close up under the 

 cliffs, and we had very hard work to get past them. 



A short time afterwards we came to a new fjord, which 

 appeared to be of similar size. We made the same circuitous 

 movement, and well avoided the worst of the ice, but on the 

 opposite shore our troubles began afresh, and it was just as much 

 as we could do to get through, and no more. Then we suddenly 

 discovered that the whole mass of ice outside was drifting west 

 with the current, and the sky in the west plainly denoted open 

 water. My hopes of finding a means of advance by that way 

 sank very considerably ; but what were we to do ? There was, 

 indeed, nothing to be done, but to set our teeth and push on 

 so that we might have a solution to the problem as quickly as 

 possible. 



We worked our way on across a big bay, and at last saw the 

 land trending north ! In the sound outside was open water, and 

 great pressure hummocks were drifting along at terrific speed in 

 the violent whirlpool caused by the strong tidal current. 



We drove along the ice- foot, and camped in the evening at the 

 next point. After tying up the dogs, we started to climb as far as 

 possible up the talus in order to get a view of the country. We 



