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aflagde et kort Bes0g i Storfjorden. Det var en ejendommelig
smuk Aften. Foran os laa, som Billedet riser, Sydkap
med sine Sne- og Isbraer, af livilke en usesten naaede
Havet. Fjeldtoppene rare paa Vestsiden indhyllede i Skyer,
fremkaldte af den lierskende Yestenvind. Paa Gstsiden
derimod, imod Storfjorden, var Himmelen klarere, og ude
i Horizonten mod 0st var der aldeles klart Solskin. Men
Himmelen var ikke blaa, den bavde et forunderligt sterkt
gult Skjser, som. forst i Sydost gik over til det vante blaa.
I Nord for det egentlige Sydkap saaes “Keilhaus Fjeld”,
og mellem dette og Sydkap fremtraadte Billedets interes-
santeste Gjenstand, en Isbrse, der fra det Indre af Laiidet
med sagte Skraaning steg ned til og langt ud i Havet,
hvor den endte med en tverbrat Yseg, kanske sine 30 Meter
li0j, og bvis horizontale Udstrsekning kunde maales med
Kvartmile. Yed Synet af denne Ismasse, paa bvis Over-
Hade Solens Straaler fremkaldte et blsendende hvidt Lys,
medens den bratte Endevseg laa som en lang, mork Rand
eller Skygge langs Havbrynet, med den sterkeste Modsset-
ning til bin, kunde jeg forstaa, hvorfor vore Fangsffarere
kalde Isbrseerne for Is-Fjelde. Et saadant Fjeld gjor. som
det her trader frem, den samme Berettigelse gjseldende paa
at deltage i Rrekken af de Masser, der bygge den faste
Jord, som den massiveste Gran it. Yort Billedes Forgrund
danner det spejlblanke, kun nu og da af en svag Bris
krusede, men dog altid gyngende Havspejl, med sit gjennem-
sigtige, grpnne Vand, i bvilket Isflag og Isblokke af de
mangfoldigste og forunderligste Former ligge omstroede.
Her sees et fiadt Stykke, qvenpaa dels blsendende hvidt af
Sne, dels tilsmudset af jordagtige Stoffe, med blaa Sprsekker
og smukt blaagrpnt under Yandet — det er Yandets egen
Farve. Hist et Stykke som en Svane med sin lange Hals,
en liyppig Fremtoning bos Polarisen.
Den lode og 16de August 1878 laa Expeditionen til
Ankers ved Norsk 0eme paa Xordkysten af Yestspidsbergen.
Der indtoges en Del Ballast, til hvilken Stene af passende
Storrelse kunde hentes i Fjseren lige ved Sundet mellem
Norskoerne. I dette var der en sterk Tidevandstrpm, der
forte Ismasser ostenfra ind i Sundet og siden med skiftende
Strom tilbage. Yort Billede Fig. 9 viser Udsigten fra
Ankerpladsen mod Nord. Til Hojre Ydre Norsko. fra
hvis Top man i klart Vejr kan se ostover belt til Verlegen-
huk. I Billedets Midte se vi Toppen af Gen “Cloven
Cliff,” der i vest-ostlig Retning bar en Klov eller Kloft.
Yi se paa Billedet, bvorledes Lyset falder ind gjennem
denne. Til Yenstre er 0en Yogelsang. Udenfor 0erne
Den norske Nordhavsexpedition. H. Mohn: Geografi.
low-lying islands. We passed to the south of these islets,
and steamed a short distance up the Stor Fjord. It was
a lovely night. Before us, as shown in the prospect, lay
Cape South, with its snow-fields and glaciers, one of which
reached-almost to the water’s edge. The summits on the
west coast were wrapped in clouds driving before the
westerly wind. On the east shore, in the direction of the
Stor Fjord, the atmosphere was considerably clearer, and
on the eastern horizon the sun shone brightly. The sky,
however, was not azure; it had a strange yellowish tint,
that extended to the south-east before merging into the
wonted cerulean hue. North of the promontory forming
Cape South, was seen “Mount Keilhau;” and between this
summit and the headland lay, boldly defined, the most
interesting object in the view, a stupendous glacier, which,
with a gentle declivity, extended from the inland tracts to
the shore and far out into the sea, where it terminated in
a perpendicular wall,, at a rough estimation not less than
100 feet high, and horizontally stretching for miles. Re-
garding this prodigious mass of ice, from the surface of
which the rays of the sun were reflected in dazzling bright-
ness, whei-eas its terminal wall extended, in striking con-
trast, as a dark line or shadowy limit along the surface of
the ocean, the name of “Is-Fjelde” (Ice Mountains), given
• by our seamen to these Spitzbergen glaciers, was seen to
be singularly appropriate. One of these glacial bergs is
equally entitled to rank as a component part of the masses
that constitute the land as granite itself. In the foreground
of the picture, curled here and there by a gentle wind,
the ocean expands its ever restless bosom, on which floes
and fragments of ice of -every conceivable form lie scattered
around. Here, we have a huge flat block — its surface covered
partly with snow of a dazzling whiteness and partly with
some dark earthy substance — exhibiting blue fissures, and
having under the water a beautiful bluish-green tint, the
colour of the surrounding ocean. There, is seen a frag-
ment resembling a swan, with its long extended neck, a
form frequently assumed by the' Polar drift-ice.
The 15th and 16th of August. 1878. the Expedition
passed at anchor at the Norway Islands, on the north coast
of West Spitzbergen. Here we took in ballast, stones of
suitable size forming the beach of the sound that extends,
between the islands. In this sound there was a strong
tidal current, that brought with it, when setting from the
east, considerable quantities of drift-ice, but which, on
the turn of the tide, carried it back again. The view
in. Fig. 9 is from the anchorage, looking north. To
the right we have Outer Norway Island, from the summit
of which, in clear weather, you can see in an easterly direc-
tion, as far as Yerlegen Hook. The middle part of the
picture shows the summit of the island, “Cloven Cliff,” a
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