wishes to send pictorial cards and telegrams. We take a look round this little mining town; in front of one of the houses we observe a small kitchen garden with its lettuce and radishes, and white and yellow flowers give colour to the «city». In all, 126 species of flowering plants have been found in Spitsbergen. A cableway runs to the height of about 270 metres from the settlement to the Store Norske mines, from which approximately 300 000 tons of coal a year are won. Another mine in the mountains overlooking the town has been closed down. An explosion in 1920 caused a fire which involved the death of twenty-six miners. A thin cloud of smoke issuing from the mountain shows that the mine is still burning. In the afternoon we enter Temple Bay. Here we see Temple Mountain, whose peculiar regularity of structure reminds us of a church. We now proceed down the broad Ice Fjord. On the south side we note the beautiful Nordenskiéld Fjell. The small mining works of the Anglo-Russian Crumant Co. are seen a little to the east of Coles Bay. In the evening we reach Green Harbour on the south side of the mouth of Ice Fjord. Here we find a large Russian mining settlement comprising a thousand workmen and officials. The Norwegians were the first to begin coal- mining in Svalbard (1899). English and American companies (Longyear) commenced operations in 1905, the Swedes in 1911, Russians in 1912, and 190