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showing fine vertical crevasses where the two
arms of the glacier branch out laterally from their
common centre.
We have not been fortunate in the matter of
glaciers on this journey, on account of the thick
weather hiding altogether the great inland
ice-region of the Fondalen, and the snow remaining
on the surface concealing so much of the features
of the small glaciers on the coast. The best were
hereabouts, between Oxfjord and Tromsö, which
we reach about 9 p.m.
We are rather startled on learning that about
two days after we left the Hôtel du Nord it was
burnt down during the night. As may be
supposed, a purely wooden structure of this kind was
rapidly destroyed. No means of escape from the
upper stories being provided, a woman who was
sleeping there lost her life. She threw herself out
of window to escape the flames, and was killed by
the fall. While we stayed there our party was
divided: three slept on the ground floor, and the
others, three ladies and myself, on the upper story
from which the woman was killed. Had we been
there at the time of the fire, our chances of escape
would have been very precarious.
Wooden houses should never be raised more
than one story above the ground floor. We were
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