104 NEW LAND. 



brought on board with them. The following day the remainder 

 was fetched and conveyed safely on board, despite high wind from 

 the north. 



On Friday, November 9, Bay, Hassel, Stolz, and Peder again 

 drove up to Xordstrand, taking with them Baumann's dogs as 

 a loose team for the mate. All five returned the following day, 

 bringing with them all that remained of the meat, and everything 

 else we had left north ; the only thing they had not managed to 

 bring was a fifteen-gallon barrel of paraffin. 



As the meat was brought on board it was hung up in the fore- 

 cabin to thaw, and was afterwards cut up into joints and sorted. 

 The flanks, tongues, and briskets were each time handed over to 

 the steward for further treatment. 



I decided to have a barrel of meat salted, and take it back to 

 Norway as a delicacy for the owners. We had no saltpetre, it is 

 true, but that was a matter of no consequence, for Schei and 

 Simmons at once undertook to make some, and during the course 

 of the afternoon the meat was salted down according to the most 

 approved methods, with sugar, saltpetre, and divers other in- 

 gredients. It was prime fat meat, so I had every reason to think 

 it would be a success. 



On the afternoon of November 9, Schei and Isachsen returned 

 on board. They had come by way of Nordstrand, and brought 

 back some of the meat with them. They also brought the sad 

 news that ' Messaline,' ' Svarten,' and ' Tigeren ' had died of frost- 

 bite and bad weather. 



Northward, along Norskebugten, there was blue sea all the way 

 from the sound to Graham Island. At Nordstrand, too, they saw 

 nothing but open water the whole way north. Where the ice had 

 gone to it was impossible to say, but certainly Olsen and I were 

 lucky when we gave up driving across the young ice on the bay ; 

 had we done so, we should have been a good way from the ' Fram ' 

 and our friends on board by this time. 



The winter now came on apace. Again the north wind swept 

 swift and strong down the valley, and out through the fjord ; and 

 the more it blew the colder it became. To begin with, we had 

 -33 to -35Fahr. (-36 to -37 Cent), but later the mean 



