WASHINGTON LAND TO HALL LAND 



mutton, fresh and delicious as if it had been left only the previous 

 day. Next to the boxes we found a broken barrel marked : 



Arctic Service. 



H.M.S. "DISCOVERY." 



Sugar. 



Unfortunately a sweet-toothed bear had been here before 

 us, and this was all the more annoying as sugar happened to 

 be the article which we all coveted. So we had to content our- 

 selves with unusually well-preserved boiled beef. The tins 

 were marked : " Meat Preserving Co., Ltd. Agents, Wother- 

 spoon and Co. Works, Winton Southland, N.Z." 



For a long time we were thus able to live grandly on food 

 originally meant for Arctic colleagues who had travelled here 

 before any of us were born. Our thanks to the brave English- 

 men who left it here ; our compliments to the excellent firm 

 which prepared this durable article ! 



Besides the mutton we found a large tin containing 20 kilo- 

 grams of tallow, which was the dogs' share in this unexpected 

 meal. 



April 29th. — We had to stay here for yet another day 

 because of the violent storm. Although the snow seemed firm 

 and the ice in many places lay bare and shiny, now and then 

 there was such a thick drift that the high mountains on the 

 other side of Petermann Fjord disappeared. At length, 

 towards evening, the wind calmed down so that we could break 

 up and cross the fjord. 



This fjord looked quaint and foreign in its surroundings. 

 Everywhere the mountains along the coast fall steeply down 

 towards the ice, and the dark-brownish tones showed gloomy 

 and serious against the even, white inland-ice which appears 

 everywhere as a bank of white fog behind the coastland. In 

 several places along the fjord, tongues of the glacier shoot 

 down between the mountains, but at no point here is the pro- 

 duction of ice-mountains apparent. On the whole, it seems 

 that the ice up here on the northernmost latitudes differs from 

 the ice further southward, in that in no place does one find real 



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