14 HER CREW AND OUTFIT. 



Her crew consisted of a " skyppar " or 

 captain, two men rated and paid as harpooners 

 and mates, a cook, and eight otlier seamen ; 

 the captain, the two harpooners, and two of 

 the others had been many times at Spitzbergen, 

 and were considered good and experienced 

 hands. 



She was fully equipped with harpoons and 

 lines, lances, seal-hooks, axes, blubber-knives, 

 a large bundle of white pine-sticks, in the 

 rough (to be converted into oars and shafts for 

 the lances and harpoons), casks for the blubber; 

 (at present full of water and small coals for 

 baUast) ; salt for the skins ; provisions for the 

 crew, consisting of salt beef and pork, dried 

 fish, butter, rye-bread, peas, molasses, tea 

 and coffee, &c. &c. 



As the " Anna Louisa " had a small walrus 

 boat belonging to her, independently of the 

 two being built for us, we determined that in 

 order to save time she should sail at once ; so 

 after a little difiiculty in collecting the crew, 

 who seemed more inclined to the worship of 

 Bacchus than that of Diana, we got her off 

 with a fair wind on the 26th of June. We 

 had previously arranged with the " skyppar," 

 to rendezvous at a little bay on the S.E. corner 



