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NEW LAND. 



It was brilliantly clear, not a cloud was to be seen on the sky. 

 The mountains up in Greely Fjord seemed so near that we could 

 almost touch them. We had not had such a beautiful evening 

 the whole of the journey. If only the good weather would last 

 for a time ! The thermometer was as high as 20 or 21 Fahr^ 

 ( 6 or 7 Cent.), and the sun so warm that it felt almost like 

 a summer day at home in Norway. 



The dogs lay at length on the snow, puffing and panting, and 

 quite done up with the heat. Some of them had so overeaten 

 themselves that they could not lie in proper canine fashion, but 



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lay on their backs, with all four legs in the air, grunting and 

 making such a noise, that we wondered what was going to happen 

 to them. Little they recked, nor we either, that up in the crack, 

 abeam of our camping-place, a herd of polar oxen were sniffing 

 about. We had meat enough, and left the animals in peace. 



As soon as the camp was in order we crept into the tent, and 

 $92i to on tne glorious marrow-bones. 



But how long was Adam in Paradise ? Latish in the night 

 we awoke with the sensation that we and the tent were all about 

 to be swept away. The storm whined and howled; the canvas 



