GREENLAND BY THE POLAR SEA 



my coat, 5 boxes of matches and a pan, our rig-out for 2-3 

 weeks' autumn campaign is very simple and ' Eskimo.' To 

 sleep 11 p.m. on the mossy slope. Fog sets in, minus 5° and 

 a little snow. The Eskimos — those energetic savages — again 

 after hare — return. 



" 4 p.m. — Entrails eaten as usual raw, the blood goes into 

 the soup, then a fresh cooking of hare. Glorious, four hares 

 in one day for four men — that means life for us. The soup is 

 drunk by turns from the pan as we have left our cups. My 

 strength which was almost exhausted returns and I hope to 

 conquer the dizzy feeling of head and heart, but last four days 

 I have been nearer death than life. Can again permit myself 

 a small plug of tobacco, which previously was poison for my 

 empty stomach. Hope the diarrhoea after the dog-diet will 

 stop. The hare tastes beautifully, like chicken. We make fire 

 of Cassiope or better still with old dry branches of Sdlix arctica, 

 finger- thick. Veget. finished for the year, everything yellow 

 and brown, ready for winter's rest. Fruit of Cassiope, Sax. 

 opposit., tricusp., Dnjas, PotentiUa, Drabee, Wahlbergella, 

 etc. — Wahlberg. affinis and triflorum. 



"A loon, geese, terns, buntings in flocks. Midnight 

 gloom, gneiss knolls, tracks of reindeer. 



" August 28th. — Bosun a hare during night. Cold. Fog. 

 Falling snow. Diarrhoea. Misery. Start 1 p.m. through 

 snow. Colpodium, Cystopteris (com.), Lycopod. Selago, 

 Rhododendron, red-polls in flocks, terns, falcons, plenty of 

 animal life and rich plankton in several little lakes. Sax. cernua, 

 foot high with top leaf. Myrtillus ulig. blood-red, very com- 

 mon, always without fruit. J. biglumis, EpiJob. latifol. ster., 

 Hesperis com. in fruit, Oxyria, Draba nivalis, hirta, Cardam. 

 bellidifoJ. Bosun a young hare 4.30 a.m. Driving snow, fog. 

 Shared the entrails at once and ate them raw, warmth in body. 

 Yes, the whole hare was divided in 4 pieces which were eaten 

 raw. Strenuous march until 12.30 a.m. without finding 

 game. 



"August 29th. — I am half-dead, but found Woodsia ilv. 

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