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even a glimpse through the clouds which were blown 

 round our heads. The cold was awful ! I should not 

 have been able to bear it had it not been for the per- 

 spiration I was in, caused by my previous exertions. I 

 could not, however, leave the top till I had pushed my 

 way through the snow to the top of the peak which 

 extends to the other side of the crater, and it is sup- 

 posed by Forbes to be the higher point of the two. 

 This I do not think is the case ; in fact, I am sure it is 

 not. 



We then started for the descent, which we made 

 the same way we came. The view was splendid ; what 

 was dim in the early morning was clear and shining in 

 the sun, and everything looked cheerful and bright 

 after the wild, cold, windy perch we had just come 

 down from. At the bottom we lost our way, and had 

 no slight difficulty in finding it, but after many rattling 

 (in every sense of the word) falls, and the slow, tire- 

 some work of tracking our own footsteps for 2 miles 

 or so, we found the horses and man all nearly frozen. 

 Here we were glad enough to have another * Specer, 1 

 having been seven hours at least up to our knees in 

 snow. It was four o'clock when we reached the 

 summit, seven when we joined the horses, and 1.30 

 when we started. The ride home was tiresome, wet 

 and almost frozen as I was. I was rather tired, having 

 had hardish work the last fifty '-two hours, and only two 

 hours' sleep. We arrived at Jerkin about 9.30." 



From Throndhjem he went by steamer to Hammer- 

 fest :- 



The sunset about this time began to get beautiful, 

 the tinge of deep orange never leaving the mountains 

 and sea till the sun made his appearance again, which 

 he did in about one hour. I shall never forget the 



