248 NEW LAND. 



at noon at one of the higher points to take an observation and 

 see a little more of the land. 



The going was inordinately heavy, and seemed as if it would 

 grow worse the farther we went inwards. We had already taken 

 some photographs of the fjord and its surroundings, and we now 

 came to the conclusion that the time would be better spent in 

 examining the glaciers in King Oscar Land than in ploughing on 

 here. It had always been our intention to drive up one of the 

 fjords south of Store Bjornekap and penetrate into the land, to the 

 ' inland ice/ and it was now so late in the season that mild 

 weather might be expected at any time. 



We therefore decided to turn back, and, later in the afternoon, 

 drove down the fjord again. But soon a violent wind sprang up, 

 and we therefore drove ashore a couple of miles north of our old 

 camping-place out on Hyperitodden, after which we made for a 

 river-valley we had seen earlier in the day, and where we hoped 

 to find shelter. It was blowing so hard that it was no use to 

 attempt to pitch the tent except in a sheltered spot. 



While we were turning into this valley we had the wind dead 

 against us for a time, and this made things about as unpleasant as 

 they could be. It was impossible to get the dogs up against it, 

 particularly when the worst hailstorms fell on us. Even when I 

 was able to urge my dogs to make head against it for a little way, 

 Schei's team would bear straight off without a pretence at follow- 

 ing. After endless trouble we at last got them into the valley, 

 and then found it was blowing just as hard there as it had 

 been outside ! 



We trudged round for a good while looking for a dry and 

 sheltered place for the tent ; and after a time the wind went down, 

 when a dry camping-ground was not so difficult to find. As it 

 became pretty fine later in the evening we decided to stay where 

 we were, so that Schei could go an excursion inwards on the level 

 country, and I to climb Hyperitodden and take bearings and 

 rounds of angles between the different fjords and points. 



My work on the hilltop next day in the sharp breeze from 

 the north was not of the pleasantest ; but I did what I wanted to 

 do, and so could not complain. Schei was home by supper-time, 





