42 ADVENTURES IN THE NORTHERN SEAS. 



altogether, and to shift our flag into the "Anna 

 Louisa" for good. We occupied about one half the 

 day in transferring our guns, bedding, provisions, 

 ammunition, etc., from the yacht to the sloop ; we 

 also took with us the yacht's cook and Lord Da- 

 vid's servant James, which made up a total of six- 

 teen souls for the sloop, leaving ten in the yacht ; 

 we took the two new walrus boats with us, and 

 transferred the small old one to the yacht; we 

 farther gave them a large cask, in which to stow 

 the blubber of any seals they might get. I gave 

 the sailing-master of the yacht instructions in writ- 

 ing "to proceed to Bell Sound, and there to kill 

 as many reindeer as possible ; if no reindeer were 

 procurable, to cross again to Hammerfest for pro- 

 visions, and in either case to be back without fail 

 at the Russian huts on or before the 6th of Au- 

 gust." I also instructed him to employ his per- 

 sonal leisure in collecting and carefully labeling 

 fossils and shells, and also small bags of gravel 

 from different elevations, as well as some specimens 

 of whales' bones and drift-wood from the highest 

 elevations he could find them on. 



I appointed the mate to be maitre de chasse, and 

 intrusted him with one of the Terry's rifles and a 

 single-barreled shot-gun, with lots of powder, shot, 

 caps, and cartridges ; we then parted company, and 

 proceeded to make ourselves as comfortable as cir- 

 cumstances would admit of on board the sloop. 



