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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 

 calces of ice in a small hay, where they were 

 kept together hy a sort of eddy, and upon one 

 of these lay a hig seal asleep. I shot him 

 and took him with us; but when we got on 

 hoard 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. 



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