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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 
[chap. 
least for the benefit of those who have travelled in the north 
of Norway, several friendly, hospitable families in whose society 
we talked away many hours of our involuntary stay in the 
neighbourhood. The inhabitants of course live on fish. All 
OLD-WOULD POLAR DRESS. 
liapp, after original in the Northern Museum, Stockholm. 
agriculture is impossible here. Potatoes have indeed some¬ 
times yielded an abundant crop on the neighbouring Ingoe 
(71° 5' N. L.), but their cultivation commonly fails, in conse¬ 
quence of the shortness of the summer; on the other hand, 
radishes and a number of other vegetables are grown with 
success in the garden-beds. Of wild berries there is found here 
