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shaking up which the boats got while being hauled over the 

 ice, they leaked badly. Pumping and baling had to be done 

 about every fifteen or twenty minutes. This was kept up 

 until we, in the whale-boat, reached the Tunguse village. 

 On August 16th, Mr. Collins called my attention to land at 

 the southwest. Some birds and seals were seen, also an oc- 

 casional walrus and bearded seal. Soundings were had in 

 nineteen fathoms. On the 17th there was more water in 

 sight than I had seen for two years. On the 20th the land 

 was very plain, and the ice packed as if jammed by some- 



SEAL AND SEAL-HOLE. 



thing. This packing afterward caused us to be delayed ten 

 days. From this trying situation we were released on Tues- 

 day, August 30th. On the evening of this day we made a 

 landing on Thaddeus Island, one of the Liakhof group. 



After eating my scanty supper of pemmican I started out, 

 gun in hand, for a walk. I saw the long tailed duck {H. 

 glacialis} in large flocks, also some eiders ; but glacialis was 

 the most common species I noticed while among these isl- 

 ands. I also saw fresh tracks of reindeer and foxes, and 

 two bones (tibia and fibula) of a mammoth. These 1 



