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Cornwall. But, as I have said, we considered this to be improbable, 

 and thought that in the vicinity of the place where we now were 

 there must be a sound cutting northward through the land in the 

 direction of Greely Fjord, and that this sound must be in connec- 

 tion with the fjords we had seen the previous spring. The weather, 



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however, was so thick that it was difficult to really know one's 

 bearings. 



The next day, March 30, we continued northward, with the 

 same misty weather and bad going as before. A couple of hours 

 or so after our departure we met a huge bear coming towards 

 us. We kept on our course, and he was as unconcerned as we, 

 for he came straight up to us. At a couple of hundred yards' 

 distance my dogs saw him, and I overturned the sledge and let 



