236 ADVENTURES IN THE NORTHERN SEAS. 



chor. "When we saw from the heights, therefore, 

 that the yacht was coming down, we made sail to 

 meet her. 



Soon after we started, we saw six or seven cakes 

 of ice in a small bay, where they were kept together 

 by a sort of eddy, and upon one of these lay a big 

 seal asleep. I shot him and took him with us; 

 but when we got on board the yacht, I was aston- 

 ished to find that it was Sunday, a fact of which I 

 had previously been quite unaware. 



We sailed rapidly down the fiord, and joined our 

 consort off Hvalfiske Point in the evening. 



