The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-11-22

By no means RrudEed them a little Of ali our
abundance. These foxes were both of the
kind. and had we been SO inclined We could cas-
fly have laid by n good store of valuable furs.
large as to allow, in my opinion, OF our spend.
ing II upon them, for IL seemed TO inc that bears
were the smallest gano that could give us any
Upon the whole the winter passed in a man
ner beyond onr expectation. Our health was
a little flour, and a little sugar we were both
agreed that we could have lived like lords.
SPRING AT LAST.
At last came spring with sunshine and birds.
days before the sun. had appeared above the
horizon. when we suddenly saw n flock of little
to the NORTH north. S Il was ash like eV the nsG arst s Sre % : fTom
life and spring. Many followed In their train,
and soon the mountains around us swarmed
which enlivenod everything with their cheerful
twitterlng. A dark sky, which we had had
spring, in the south and southwest seemed to
imply that, there must be water, in that dlrec-
s tSs1,, f S5 which sysrv 1t bo wss a. z m TStl1Gtion . oN we h aud
easy voyage in our kayaks across to Spltzbergen.
partly over open water. partly over drift icei
ourselves in preparations for this journey.
LIFE THOU SOAR.
There was much, however, to BIO done before
we could set OF, Our clothes were 30 worn out
were anything but suitable for q journey Of this
kind. We therefore made ourselves two entire
with us. Our underclothinE we tried to wash ne
best we could, but never before did | know what
II was to exist without soap; II was diniGult
rubbing n bears blood and fat, and then
ess was not applicable to clothes. After try
ing every possible way. we found, in our do
we best could and then scrape them with q
KNIFE. In ms way we got SO much OF them
OF putting on clean clothes whom we once more
got back to Norway was always In our minds as
the greatest enjoyment that life could bestow.
We had to make a new sleeping bag OF bear
skins, which we dried and prepared by stretching
them out under the roof of our hut. Our good.
precious silk tent, which we had had during the
whole OF the preceding years journey, had at
last, during the autumn storms. become 30 worn
more. We were now. therefore. obliged to en-
ploy our sledge sails as n tent. Our provisions
n nor t onr ?9 9nsi S wsr s,r oh oe Sn Se1 h,sb Issh S AND ' Sc;
were sure OF finding sufficient game on the way
when the provisions we took with us gave out"
ATTACKED BY A wALRUs.
On the way south to Jackson's camp they
were attacked BY a walrus.
These monsters had tried several times to
put an end to us by suddenly coming up from
below and attacking the kayak with violent
blow. which might easily have upset us, but
this they had hitherto not succeeded in doing.
my KAYAK, and. laying one ffpper on its edge.
fnisd its to lo nps'i tu i; at ins the IL, name bo t,%1 af for-
tunately, however, without touching me. I
managed to give the walrus such a blow on
the head with the paddle that II rose high up
out OF the water. threatening to fall upon me.
but disappeared the next moment as quickly rs
1t had come. tbs water was rushing into tho
kayak through the long rent made in the bot
tom by, the walrus. and | was sinking rapidly.
and only at the last moment managed to run
my kayak onto q foe that was projecting under
the water, and escaped in safety from the boat
onto the ice; The next day was employed in re-
photographic apparatus, &C., which were all
soaked with sea water, though fortunately no
real harm was DONE
The meeting with Jackson's party . few days
later has already been described in THE Sun.