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NEW LAND. 



Everything gave the impression of wanton destruction, but 

 whether Eskimo 'or seal-catchers had been the perpetrators cannot 

 be said with certainty. In order to do this a minute examination 

 would have to be made when the place was quite free of snow. 



During the afternoon Fosheim returned to camp, without 

 having seen either bear or dogs. It was not till ten o'clock at 

 night that the tramps came home, ravenously hungry and tired out. 



On May 6 they started homewards in changeable weather, 

 which, however, was chiefly unfavourable. Baumann was snow- 



BAY AT HIS MORNING TOILET. 



blind for a couple of days, and the expedition lay to. Nor could 

 they discover any passage on their way north which might entitle 

 Arthur Fjord to its old name of Arthur Strait. About a mile from 

 the head of it a bay cut into the land in an east-north-easterly 

 direction, but Baumann did not think that there was any sound 

 there either, as its southern outlet, in such a case, would have 

 a quite different direction from that given in the charts. 



They shot two harbour seals and two hares on the way home, 

 and saw a wolf and several bears. Towards noon, on May 20, they 

 came on board again. From Gaasefjord across to Cape Osborn, 

 some way north of Beechey Island, the snow was loose all the 



