About 8 a.m.the wind backed to the north- west and threatened another blow.

We had sighted in the meantime a big indentation which I thought must be King Haakon Bay, and I decided that we must land there.

We set the bows of the boat towards the bay and ran before the freshening gale.

Soon we had angry reefs on either side.

Great glaciers came down to the sea and offered no landing- place.