MEET OUR CONSORT. 41 



We sailed down the fiord again on the 5th to 

 look for our consort, or to see if she had left any 

 letters for us at the post-office ; on nearing the Rus- 

 sian huts we saw a small sloop, which hoisted the 

 flag of Norway and Sweden, and which we soon 

 made out to be the " Anna Louisa." She had been 

 driven a good deal to the east during the gale on 

 the 1st and 2d, and had not met with any great 

 quantity of ice, except among the Thousand Isl- 

 ands ; but several small vessels were hunting, or, 

 as they call it, "fishing," to the eastward. Our 

 men had only seen two walruses, but they had kill- 

 ed four seals, and these formed the commencement 

 of a cargo which afterward swelled to goodly pro- 

 portions. 



Our people were of opinion that our best chance 

 of sport lay to the northeast of the Thousand Isl- 

 ands, where there are extensive submarine banks, 

 much affected by the walrus ; but as we were very 

 reluctant to exchange the comfortable cabins of the 

 "Ginevra" for the narrow and odoriferous bunks 

 of the "Anna Louisa," we decided on keeping in 

 company as long as the ice would permit the for- 

 mer to get through ; but, although we lowered the 

 " GinevraV 1 main-topsail, brailed up the foresail, 

 and tacked up the mainsail, we had still some diffi- 

 culty in keeping the yacht from running out of 

 sight of her lubberly consort. 



On the 6th we found the ice getting too thick 

 for the "Ginevra," so we agreed to abandon her 



