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of ice, though this manner of eluding the difficulty did not last for 

 long. We were obliged to go out again, and, after some trouble, 

 succeeded in getting down on to the sea-ice. This was terrible 

 country ! Towards evening we reached a largish bay, where we 

 found fairly even ice, and made good progress ; camping later on 

 under two mountain-tops which we had seen all day, and whose 

 naming had occasioned some difference of opinion. 



Early in the morning a name more descriptive than tasteful 

 had been suggested for them. Fosheim, who on several occasions 



PHESSUUE-RIDGE NEAR SKJ^KTORSDAGSKAP. 



had shown himself to be the most gifted advocate of modesty of 

 the expedition, said nothing, but his face promised ill. He went 

 on pondering all day, and when in_ the evening an allusion was 

 made to the same name, he declared indignantly it would not do 

 at all ; it was too ugly. No, they should be called ' The Two 

 Craters ' (' De To Kratere '), and so they are to this day. Virtue 

 has had its reward. 



It was blowing hard from the north-west, and was thick and 

 foggy, so that neither that evening nor the next morning did we 

 see much of the country. Soon after we started next morning we 

 passed three small icebergs. They were about fifteen to twenty 



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