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number of species of sea-weed. Our shooting brought in some geese, a 

 very welcome reinforcement of our stock of provisions. 



Our plan was to cross over to North Kent on the morning of July 13, 

 but we were kept till late in the day by fog. As soon as it lifted, how- 

 ever, we rowed off, and in three and a half hours reached a landing-place 

 which we had decided on beforehand, at the mouth of a little river- 

 valley. We spent the evening in an excursion to the undulating plateau 

 which constitutes the interior of the north part of the island. It was, 

 however, very poor country, and did not yield much. Later in the 

 evening, after our return to the tent, a strong south wind sprang up, 

 and the temperature rose to 46 Fahr. (8 Cent.), the highest we 

 observed during the whole of our excursion with the boat. 



The following day we started south again, through the sound, and 

 for the first time on our journey were able to get some use out of the 

 sail we had taken with us. This wind did not last long, but the current 

 was with us, and in a few hours we made land at ' Spajkodden,' or 

 ' Blubber Point,' south of the large neve at Renbugten. Here we put 

 in, so that Isachsen might take some observations which he required for 

 his map of these parts. On the morning of July 15 we moved down to 

 Cape Donning- Hanseu, where more observations were taken, and later in 

 the day to Vendomkap. Here, the following morning, I made a short 

 excursion in our immediate vicinity while Isachsen was observing, and 

 after that we broke camp, sailed down to Jammerbugten, where we 

 picked up a box containing glasses which we had left there on the way 

 up, and went on to Hvalrosfjord, where I wanted to do a little more 

 dredging. This came to nothing, however, on account of a strong 

 north-west wind, and after an unpleasant night on the stone-strewn 

 shore of the point we were obliged to go on to Maagebugten. 



As a fairly good crop of phanerogams might be expected at the 

 breeding-place here at this time of year, I accordingly went up there, 

 but the outcome was rather meagre, flora being remarkably poor 

 in species. On the morning of July 18 we dredged the bay, but our 

 harvest was chiefly pebbles. Nor were matters much better at our 

 old camping-place inside the mouth of the fjord, whither we now went ; 

 the north wind, our old enemy, hindered our work and made it 

 impossible to find the prolific patches at the bottom which I had 

 already remarked here. 



On the morning of July 19 we were met by the party who it had 

 been arranged were to take over the boat, and the following morning 

 we parted' company ; the boat party, which Isachsen joined, starting for 

 North Kent, while Peder Hendrikseu and I took the dogs and sledges 

 and drove to Ytre Eide. There I made good use of the afternoon in an 

 excursion to ' Falkberget ' (Falcon Mountain), where, besides quite a 



