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his assistants were living there now, and had asked 

 Trontheim to take up his quarters witli them. Tront- 

 heim, therefore, invited us in, and we soon found our- 

 selves in a couple of comfortable log -built rooms with 

 open fireplaces like our Norwegian " peis." 



After this we proceeded to the dog-camp, which was 

 situated on a plain at some distance from the houses and 

 tents. As we approached it the howling and barking 

 kept getting worse and worse. When a short distance 

 off we were surprised to see a Norwegian flag on the 

 top of a pole. Trontheim's face beamed with joy as our 

 eyes fell on it. It was, he said, under the same flag as 

 our expedition that his had been undertaken. There 

 stood the dogs tied up, making a deafening clamor. 

 Many of them appeared to be well-bred animals— long- 

 haired, snow- white, with up -standing ears and pointed 

 muzzles. With their gentle, good-natured looking faces 

 they at once ingratiated themselves in our affections. 

 Some of them more resembled a fox, and had shorter 

 coats, while others were black or spotted. Evidently they 

 were of different races, and some of them betrayed by 

 their drooping ears a strong admixture of European 

 blood. After having duly admired the ravenous way 

 in which they swallowed raw fish (gwiniad), not with- 

 out a o-ood deal of snarlino^ and wrano-lino-, we took a 

 walk inland to a lake close by in search of game ; but 

 we only found an Arctic gull with its brood. A channel 

 had been duo- from this lake to convev drinkins^-water to 



