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could not have passed at once. And here, in spite of a 

 racing tide, three great timber hulks were being towed, 

 each by a boat with four men for crew. These boats- 

 keks they are called— look, with their high sterns and 

 s'ternpieces, like little Viking ships. Possibly their shape 

 is a survival ; at any rate I liked to think of it as such. 



J une y// L — And now we crossed the Arctic Circle, and 

 yet recorded our highest temperature, for it was 70° F. in 

 the sun at 3 p.m. 



All day long we were off Norrland, sighting the 

 Lofotens about two o'clock, with puffins on the wing 

 by thousands, and wheeling in the air like rooks. Also 

 twice to-day we saw the great northern diver and several 

 glaucous gulls. We met a large school of grampus, and 

 saw one whale. The men declared it a bottle-nose. 



I uiic $//i. — When I came on deck this morning the 

 Vaag's Fjord (68° 4c/ N.) was all like glass, and the 

 sunlight was quite dazzling. A great northern diver 

 was flying backwards and forwards from the middle of 

 the fjord to the shore. I saw it do this four times, 

 but could not make out why, for I have never seen 

 a diver catch any fish that it could not eat easily in the 

 water. The bird by its movements should have been 

 nesting, but divers do not nest so early in the year. 

 There was also a large herd of some kind of dolphin 

 feeding round the fjord. Over them hung very many 



