three days before and that we saw many groups of walrus in the water and on the floes. The big fellows did not pay much attention to us, seeming to know that we were in too much of a hurry to spend time hunting them. It almost broke the hearts of Peter, Hendrik and Sigden, not to be able to stop and get some of the animals or even to kill them. Too much dog and man food was thus being allowed to slip away to suit their ideas of what was proper. In the latter part of the afternoon as we were running along past the entrance to Booth Sound, where sugar-loaf island Fitzclarence's Rock is a prominent and well-known landmark, the wind suddenly became strong from the