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XEW LAND. 



freshets were thundering down, and crested waves were on almost 

 every stream. Had there been snow on the ground the country 

 would have been easy enough to travel in, but as things were it 

 was exceedingly difficult. 



At last they succeeded in getting up on to the neck of land, 

 and took with them four joints of beef and two skins, the two last- 

 shot animals not having been flayed. In course of time they got 

 back to camp again, though in very bad weather. It was after this 



Hay. Fosheim. Raanes. Lindstrom. 



SUMMER OX BOARD. 



journey that the fjord received its name of ' Gaasefjord,' for they 

 saw geese nearly everywhere in the valley and in the inner part 

 of the fjord, as far out as 'Middagskollen' (Noonday Hill) as 

 we came later on, when we took up our winter quarters in the 

 fjord, to designate a height on a projecting point, about five miles 

 from the head of the fjord. 



It is a pretty spot in there, round the head of Gaasefjord, 

 and the geese were not at all so stupid when they discovered it, and 

 its adjacent valleys. The main valley, from the head of the fjord 



