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little changed ; he covered the grave in again, and intended to call 

 again to take his body back to Norway, but when he passed the 

 place, on his homeward passage, it was blowing too hard to allow 

 of his doing so. Arnesen says he himself intends to bring him 

 home, if ever he has a chance, when homeward bound ; for there 

 is some suspicion that he may have been murdered, as the two 

 men who wintered with him survived, while Tobiesen and his son 

 both died. 



September 25. — Began to weigh at 4.30 a.m., the wind having 

 got round to the north. The sails were hard frozen, and three 

 or four turns in the cables, so only started at 5.15; the deck 

 remained covered with snow, and it was decidedly cold. All the 

 latter part of the afternoon — from G p.m. or earlier, until dark— we 

 could see from Dodmansoren, lat. 78° 13' (= Alkhornet), to beyond 

 Hornsundstind, lat. 76° 54', as we sailed about eight English miles 

 off the coast, and the sunset effect — a lovely pink behind the white 

 Fjelds — was the most beautiful we have seen this year. In the 

 afternoon saw a Briinnich's Guillemot fly past the ship towards 

 the south, the only one seen since the 19th. 



September 2G. — Fairly abreast of Horn Sound at 1p.m.; 

 opposite South Cape between 5 and 6 p.m. Fulmars were the 

 only birds I saw. Rabot saw a Briinnich's Guillemot. A few 

 flakes of sleet soon after noon ; the ship lurching heavily, so much 

 so as to capsize the galley, luckily not till dinner was just out of 

 the way. 



September 27. Lat. at noon, 75°35'N.,long. 17° l'E — Beautiful 

 sunshiny day ; light air from S.W. A good many Fulmars and 

 Kittiwakes about in the forenoon, the latter getting apparently 

 common as we get south. Saw, apparently, a Richardson's Skua 

 which had moulted the long tail-feathers — appeared to be an 

 adult, with white breast. About 1 p.m. saw probably not less 

 than 150 or 200 Kittiwakes feeding on the water, harassed by six 

 or more skuas. Shortly afterwards saw three skuas close to our 

 bow after one Kittiwake ; one was, I think, immature, and another 

 appeared to have a very long tail, but as it looked as large as the 

 others it was probably of this species, and not Buffon's. Just 

 afterwards saw two Briinnich's Guillemots flying W. or W.N.W. 

 In the afternoon a party of five, and another of four, Little Auks 

 flying west, or between that and north — anyway, not south. 

 Another lot of Kittiwakes on the water, but not nearly so 



