338 NEW LAND. 



The skins we spread on the snow with the blubber downwards, 

 so that it should not be quite so accessible to animals of prey. It 

 was not a bad thing to have an extra depot here, as we should often 

 drive past it during the course of the spring and summer ; and it 

 would also be a good .bait for bears. To commemorate the day's 

 sport, we called the fjord ' Hvalrosfjord ' or ' Walrus Fjord ', and 

 Baumann and Hassel took several successful photographs of the 

 skinning and camp. 



Well satisfied with the exploits of the day, we crept into the 

 tents, where the fragrant steaming soup and meat already awaited 

 us. Then we changed our boots, and after supper, our pipes alight, 

 stretched ourselves at ease on the bags. Had we not reason to 

 be pleased ? We had advanced seventeen miles that day, and had 

 acquired both a depot and a bait for bears ; we could now hope to 

 shoot them here almost every time we drove by. 



But pleasant and comfortable as we had found the evening, the 

 dogs were no less content. They had eaten more than their fill, 

 and still there were large lumps of meat round about them. Most 

 of them were lying motionless, with a bit of meat under their jaws, 

 unable to open them ; but even then there were certain among 

 them of such a restless disposition, that they had to find something 

 to do. They therefore fell to fighting, and although they had had 

 such a superabundance of meat that evening that they could not 

 eat more than a fraction of it, they fought over the remains nearly 

 all night. But a little howling and disturbance of the kind did 

 not trouble us, for we were well used to it ; and when the time 

 came we went to sleep no less quickly on that account. 



