"Most numbers of the 'sleeping shark' are caught by hook here & throughout this region. Valuable principally for their livers for oil. The fish are from 7 to 15 or more feet long and livers of 200 lbs weight have been obtained. Excellent cod and hounders are caught here too at times. Shark today within 165 lbs weight Pove is chief center of shark fishing 12 May - Saturday - Sunshining day, with thin cirrus & other clouds at times in sky - Mostly calm but light NE & E wind occasionally - Ba. Stations falling a little - Not wholly promising but Ek thinks that I shall have no particular trouble, after a day or two more of waiting here, in getting this to Sarsk, tho' he doubts my being able to cross the Vaigat on the ice. Jensen expresses some anxiety. Temp. - 8a - 14°; 12m - 11°; 4p - 14°; 8p - 18°C This afternoon Ek and I walked out to the shark fishing ground and saw two sharks caught. They were 7-8 feet long. Stomach of one contained two cod fish &c and the other three chunks of walrus meat with the skin on. We wondered whether the walrus was one that had been killed off Petersvik - but walruses are frequent at Swarten hule, south of here.