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young ice, must extend to the coast. With tails high in 

 the air they shot over the ice-fields like small craft 

 sailins: before the wind. For the first moment it seemed 

 as if the wind had caught up a couple of large semicircles 

 of whitish yellow paper, and was wafting them along. 

 One of the creatures was shot from on board by Mr. 

 Hildebrandt, and the next day gave us a very well- 



SKAl wo ON " SIXAI." 



flavoured joint of fox. The idle time we did our 

 best to fill up with all sorts of occupations. In the 

 course of frequent walks, we observed the forms which 

 the ice assumed, and some particularly strange and 

 striking ones we gave names to. A short half-hour's 

 walk from the ship lay " Sinai," an ice mass thirty-nine 



