500 FARTHEST NORTH 



crept into our bag, to turn out early this morning for a 

 fine day, as we thought. The only thing that made it a 

 little doubtful was that the barometer had ceased risino- — 

 had fallen again i millim., in fact. In the night the storm 

 came on again — the same driving snow, only with this 

 difference, that now the wind is going round the compass 

 ivith the sun, so there must soon be an end of it. This 

 is beginning to be too much of a good thing; I am now 

 seriously afraid that the Fi-ani will get home before us. 

 I went for a walk inland yesterday. There were liat 

 clay and gravel stretches everywhere. I saw numerous 

 traces of geese, and in one place some white egg-shell, 

 undoubtedly belonging to a goose's ^^'g'.' We therefore 

 called the island Goose Island.* 



"Tuesday, June 2d. Still lay weather-bound last 

 night, and to-day it has been windier than ever. But 

 now, towards evening, it has begun to abate a little, 

 with a brightening sky and sunshine now and again ; 

 so we hope that there will really be a change for the 

 better. Here we lie in a hollow in the snow, getting 

 wetter and wetter, and thinking that it is June already 

 and everything looks beautiful at home, while we have 

 got no farther than this. But it cannot be much longer 

 before we are there. Oh, it is too much to think of! If 

 only I could be sure about the Fraui ! If she arrives 

 before us, ah ! what will those poor waiting ones do T 



* Jackson, who saw it in the spring of 1895, called it Mary Elizabeth 

 Island. 



