. The log of the "Laura" in polar seas; a hunting cruise from Tromsö, Norway to Spitsbergen, the polar ice off east Greenland and the island of Jan Mayen in the summer of 1906, kept by Bettie Fleischmann Holmes . Friday, July 6 Again unable to sail on account of fog. Layoff Camp Wellman all day. Weather dis-agreeable and rainy. About midnight clearedsufficiently to enable us to leave. FROM DANES ISLAND TOWARD NORTHSPITSBERGEN Saturday, July 7 After leaving Virgo Harbor again sailedthrough Danes Gat. A west wind made thesea quite choppy until we had rounded thenorthwest point of Amsterdam Islan
. The log of the "Laura" in polar seas; a hunting cruise from Tromsö, Norway to Spitsbergen, the polar ice off east Greenland and the island of Jan Mayen in the summer of 1906, kept by Bettie Fleischmann Holmes . Friday, July 6 Again unable to sail on account of fog. Layoff Camp Wellman all day. Weather dis-agreeable and rainy. About midnight clearedsufficiently to enable us to leave. FROM DANES ISLAND TOWARD NORTHSPITSBERGEN Saturday, July 7 After leaving Virgo Harbor again sailedthrough Danes Gat. A west wind made thesea quite choppy until we had rounded thenorthwest point of Amsterdam Island. The foghad lifted and the whole landscape was bathedin brilliant sunshine. Passed the entrance toSmeerenburg Sound and shortly after Fugle-sang (Birdsong) Island, then Fuglosund (BirdIsland Sound), into which projected severallarge glaciers, and beyond lay Cloven CliffIsland and the Norway Islands. Numerouseider duck were seen, and several seals in theice off the shore. Here in the narrow strait between the Nor-way Islands we encountered heavy course was northeast, and the Polar Sea,which lay to port, seemed an impenetrable [35] field of ice. Before us loomed a beautifulvista of bold head
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