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that the yacht was coming down, we made sail 

 to meet her. 



Soon after we started, we saw six or seven 

 cakes of ice in a small bay, where they Avere 

 kept together by a sort of eddy, and upon one 

 of these lay a big seal asleep. I shot him 

 and took him with ns; but when we got on 

 board the yacht, I was astonished to find that 

 it was Sunday, a fact of which I had previously 

 been quite unaware. 



"We sailed rapidly down the fiord, and joined 

 our consort off Hvalfiske Point in the evening. 



