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the little bay forming the Sverholt station derive
their chief subsistence by collecting the eggs of
the gulls, which they do very carefully to avoid
disturbing them.
The Laxefjord is glaciated in the same manner
as the Porsangerfjord.
July 28th.—The sun is vexatiously coy at
midnight, although visible just before and after. This
is due to a bank of mist that hangs pertinaciously
on the north horizon, and which I suspect marks
the meeting place of the warm Gulf Stream (I use
the old name, although it is temporarily out of
fashion) with the ice-cooled waters of the Arctic
Ocean.
We pass several more magnificent headlands
after leaving the Laxefjord, some of them
displaying so slaty a fracture that I suspect they may
have considerable value as quarries that might be
worked close to the sea, an advantage that would
compensate for their geographical distance. Many
of them are wilder and grander than the North
Cape, to which most of them bear a great
resemblance. This is the case with Nordkyn, which is
the northernmost limit of the continent of Europe,
the North Cape and Knivskjierodden being on the
island of Magerö. The second headland east of
Nordkyn is one of the finest. The perpendicular
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