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house-room, and the circumstances being what they were, the 

 wayfarers were glad enough to spend the night each sitting in a 

 corner of the warm tent instead of outside in the snow. At any 

 rate they suffered no hardship. The next day the tent and tent-poles 

 were mended, the tent pitched, and they turned into their bags. 

 The day after this again, April 15, being well rested, they started 

 east to the ' Frarn/ taking with them three bear-skins ; and arrived 

 on board on April 17. 



Raanes. 



THE DAY'S WORK ENDED. 



They set to work at once to put the tent and baggage in 

 repair, in order to be ready for the next trip, and did a little bear- 

 shooting and their daily work of taking observations, etc., until 

 May 4, when they started on Journey No. 2, on which they were 

 to take observations at Land's End and fetch the boat from 

 Baadsfjord on their way back. 



At the eastern headland of Gaasefjord they met with so much 

 open water that they were obliged to take to the ice-foot, some 

 distance inside the place where we had driven on it earlier in the 

 spring. They took a line thence in to Hvalrosfjord, not knowing 



