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for three days. On the 25th it went over to the north-west, with 

 snow. 



' Weather such as this is very trying for the dogs. " Vesla " 

 had four puppies, which " went to the dogs," and " Gamml'n," 

 poor fellow, we were obliged to shoot. He had always been rather 

 weakly, and was now at the end of his forces, and besides he was 

 not a young dog. The following morning there was nothing left 

 of him but a few tufts of hair, his comrades having demolished 

 the rest. 



' After leaving a letter for the Captain at Cape Levvel, at the 

 spot we had agreed on, we drove south with a fresh north-west 

 gale behind us, turning eastward at Cape South-West on May 2. 

 As soon as we had passed the cape the wind went down and 

 it became calm and sunshiny. This beautiful sunshine was 

 especially welcome, and we at once made the most of it by 

 turning our sleeping-bags inside out and letting them dry in it. 

 The effects of the wet bag had shown themselves in various ways, 

 one being that Hassel dreamed one night that he was on board, 

 had been put on the capstan, and all hands were standing round, 

 each playing on him with a hose. 



'The land here was of a quite different character from that 

 west. Instead of an undulating surface and low hills, there were 

 here steep precipices and heights rising to about 5000 feet. Here 

 and there a glacier protruded, and they seemed at any rate as 

 far as the more southern ones were concerned to issue from a 

 central ice-cap, and seldom reached the coast. Whereas, also, 

 the mountains between Cape Levvel and Cape South- West fell 

 fairly abruptly into the sea, there was here on the south coast a 

 considerable amount of underland, and less sharply defined transi- 

 tions in the outlines of the mountains. The coast-line was also 

 less indented than that of the west coast. 



' The snow on Norskebugten was deep, loose, and unusually 

 heavy. On May 6 we passed Hyperitodden, round which point 

 we saw the tracks of numerous bears. No sooner had we begun 

 to drive across it than a north wind sprang up in our teeth. We 

 camped in the middle of "Ulvefjord" (Wolf Fjord), as it was 

 afterwards called. East of us we saw the snow being blown out 



