400 



NEW LAND. 



a good deal of trouble in getting a couple of them. I skinned them 

 and put them in the cooking-pot, and when Schei came back 

 dinner was very soon ready. It was not more than one fat goose 

 apiece, certainly, but all the same he looked very much surprised, 

 and had to settle his glasses well on before he would acknowledge 

 the fact. He had not seen a single goose, though he had noticed 



FROM SIMMONS AND ISACHSEX's TRIP. SPRING, 1902. 



a number of grazing polar herds, large and small; altogether 

 about sixty head of game. 



We took our time at this camp, and let the dogs recover a 

 little ; my team in particular being very footsore. As there was 

 less thaw-water about at night, we did not start till eleven in the 

 evening, and we then took a line for Lille Bjornekap. Things 

 went very well at first ; even the rivers were not above our 

 knees. Farther south there was less snow, and it was hard work 

 toiling across the bare laud, but down in the hollows the going 

 was good, and taken altogether we had nothing to complain of. 



We passed one flock of geese after another without stopping 



