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RICH VEGETATION. 



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Phoca Mspida, but along with them we found several skins of 

 Histrioplwca fasciata, Zimm., and I even succeeded, though with 

 great difficulty, in inducing the Chukches to part with the 

 skin and skull of this uncommon species, distinguished by 

 its peculiar marking. The natives appeared to set a special 

 value on its skin, and parted with it unwillingly. "We had 

 ourselves, as I have already stated, seen during our passage 



DRABA ALflNA L., I^OM ST. LAWRINCE BAY. 



Natural size. 



froto Behring's Straits a number of these seals on the ice- 

 floes drifting south, but the limited time at our disposal did 

 not permit us to hunt them. 



When we left Pitlekaj, vegetation there was still far from 

 having reached its full development, but at Nunamo the strand- 

 bank was gay with an exceedingly rich magnificence of colour. 

 On an area of a few acres Dr. Kjellman collected here more than 



