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Geese ; but he saw none. I took a higher line, where the 

 walking seemed better, but it was extremely bad going 

 bogs and big stones. Dr. and L. tried to get up the cliff ; 

 found it impossible. We all met for luncheon about a 

 mile or so from the point, and I watched a Snow Bunting 

 to its nest, which we got after hard work ; 4 eggs, 2 much 

 damaged. Ludwig soon after found another ; 6 eggs, 

 ready to hatch. He then tried to get up the cliff to the 

 East of the Horn, and thought it accessible with a rope. 

 Myriads of Guillemots and Little Auks. Foxes perpetu- 

 ally barking on cliff. L. saw one but could not get 

 within shot. Home to Sultana and after dinner row 

 towards Glacier at head of Haven ; shot Little Auk, and 

 L. had another Fox-hunt, over loose snow with slippers 

 on ! Swede sends us a Deer. 



July 10, Sunday. M. Sutton and I with Ludwig 

 went to the Eiderstone, got about 60 eggs, all fresh ; 

 later in the day some of the crew went again and got 

 about 30 more, and the last thing at night Ludwig went 

 off once more and brought back 12 ! Constant ice-falls 

 like thunder all day. 



July 11. Another jagt from Tromso put in early. 

 Birkbeck hired a whale-boat and crew, in which he, M. 

 Sutton, and Lorange set off to the South side of the 

 Fjord ; the Dr. and I following in the skiff manned by 

 three of the Sultana's crew. A fine day with fresh breeze 

 in middle of Fjord ; good deal of ice coming down. Dr. 

 shoots at a big seal which was lying asleep on a floe, but 

 the brute woke up and rolled off into the water just 

 before the bullet struck the ice. The whale-boat beats 

 us hollow, but we overtook her as they landed to prospect 

 a valley opening E. of the true Alkenfels. No Deer in it ; 

 then on to another valley where 3 Deer were seen. I 

 crawled up with Birkbeck within rifle shot of them, but 

 he missed ! I had no rifle at all and I never shot at a 

 deer, as I did not think Horace's old gun would be safe 

 with a bullet. Subsequently the Tromso jagtsman killed 

 one. We brought a tent on shore and camped out in 

 " Birkbeck Dale." M. Sutton made a good fire with 



