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public expense, and everybody may secure for himself the right of pos- 

 session by thrusting a harpoon into an animal. As the animal cannot 

 ^et away, the form of the harpoon is quite immaterial, and it is only 



Fig. 8 (see text). From a drawing by G. Kleist. 



Fig. 9. A qamaneq. From a drawing by G. Kleist. 



necessary that a small piece of line be attached to it in order to identify 

 it. One by one the animals are killed — formerly with lances now usu- 

 ally with guns — drawn up, and driven away on sledges, and this may 

 be continued till the whole flock is captured, or till the weather turns 

 and the ice is broken up, when the animals are set free. 



