114 GLACIER. 



the harpoon than I had expected, and hence- 

 forward I always harpooned seals for myself. 



A breeze sprung up about noon, and we got 

 the sail up and sailed along the edge of the 

 fixed ice to the opposite side of the fiord, the 

 edge of this ice was singularly straight and 

 even, as if cut with a line and a saw, from one 

 side to the other. On reaching the east side 

 we landed, and boiled some coffee and ate 

 biscuits. 



The spot where we landed was on an im- 

 mense muddy terminal moraine of a great 

 glacier, the top of which was lost in the clouds 

 and distance. While the men were resting, I 

 waded through sticky mud nearly up to my 

 knees, to the top of the moraine, and looked 

 around with my glass, and while doing so I 

 observed that this glacier had the peculiarity — 

 which I never saw in any other of the Spitz- 

 bergen glaciers — of being separated from its 

 terminal moraine by about two miles of water ; 

 this water was mostly covered with ice^ partly 

 "fast" and partly detached and moving with 

 the tide, but the slope and appearance of 

 the glacier blended so gently and insensibly 

 into the sea-ice, that at first I thought it was 

 all glacier down to the moraine, until at last 



