208 G. Ампвир. 



On account, of bad foot-gear our feet got swollen, even though 

 we did not walk far. 



July 23rd. We all 3 fetched the meal from the place where we 

 had shot the musk-ox the other day. 



(^)ur dogs ran after us and we gave them the entrails and the skin 

 ti^i eat. On the return journey our boots went to pieces before we 

 reached our tent-place. 



July ended in constant thaw, rain and snow and it did not freeze 

 ill the night. 



We moved our tent nearer to the shore. 



July 29th. This day I had a great disappointment. I saw a small 

 lonely seal moving northwards in the melting-ice and snow water 

 along the beach. I followed it on land and shot it, but it sank. Though 

 the water was not deep at the place, it was difficvdt for me to get to 

 it, because I was absolutely without any means of getting out on the 

 water. Here there was nothing but ice and we could not get anything 

 to float on the water: and as the beach thawed more and more, the 

 belt between land and sea became broader. 



July 30th. We fetched the rest of the musk-ox meat that iiad 

 been placed in depot; we started at 11 p. m. and came back on the 

 31st at 10 a. m. Foxes had broken up our store and taken something. 



These days we can no longer get out on the ice, because there 

 is a broad belt of melting-ice and snow water between land and the 

 ice and on land we cannot go very far because of the rivers. 



August 1st. In this month also we shall perhaps have nothing 

 but bad weather: it began with a heavy downpour and a strong south- 

 east wind. 



August 2/id. Again cloudy weather with snow. 



Hagen and 1 tried by means of a hook to haul up the sunken 

 seal: I ferried out to the place and my comrade held me fast from 

 land by means of some straps bound together. 



As it unfortunately began to blow out from the place where the 

 seal had been driven in, we again became dri))[)ing wet for no use 

 al all. 



In the course of the day it began to rain and to blow hard. 



August 6th. During the following days the air was constantly 

 thick with snow and a thick layer of snow fell on the ice. We are 

 longing for good weather: we have again barely food enough for 3 

 days. And our poor dogs that hardly get anything to eat: they are 

 very gaunt and quite worn out. 



Hagen and I are very busy these days in making boots of the 

 leather bag containing the sextant; but as our tools are bad we think 

 it a very difficult piece of work. 



At б in the evening Hagen and 1 went out to lumt musk-oxen 

 as we had boiled our last meat. Our only provisions now consisted 



