When Wilson Came In With
My Hot Water, I Could Not Help Triumphantly Remarking To
Him, - "Well, Wilson, You See
We've got to Spitzbergen,
after all!" But Wilson was not a man to be driven from
his convictions by facts;
He only smiled grimly, with a
look which meant - "Would we were safe back again!" Poor
Wilson! he would have gone only half way with Bacon in
his famous Apothegm; he would willingly "commit the
Beginnings of all actions to Argus with his hundred eyes,
and the Ends" - to Centipede, with his hundred legs.
"First to watch, and then to speed" - away! would have
been his pithy emendation.
Immediately after breakfast we pulled to the shore,
carrying in the gig with us the photographic apparatus,
tents, guns, ammunition, and the goat. Poor old thing!
she had suffered dreadfully from sea-sickness, and I
thought a run ashore might do her good. On the left-hand
side of the bay, between the foot of the mountain and
the sea, there ran a low flat belt of black moss, about
half a mile broad; and as this appeared the only point
in the neighbourhood likely to offer any attraction to
reindeer, it was on this side that I determined to land.
My chief reason for having run into English Bay rather
than Magdalena Bay was because we had been told at
Hammerfest that it was the more likely place of the two
for deer; and as we were sadly in want of fresh meat this
advantage quite decided us in our choice.
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