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time shooting.* Their success hitherto, however, 
has not been very considerable, for two or three hares 
and a few grous are all that have been killed. All 
the hares are perfectly white, and of a large size ; 
one of the first that was killed weighed eight 
pounds, which, I believe, is about the average Behe 
of all those we have seen since. The plumage 
of a few of the grous is also entirely white, but 
generally the backs and coverts of the wings are 
speckled with rusty yellow and dark spots, a the 
colour of the under part of the body of all of them 
is white. They are rather larger than the common 
partridge, but not quite so heavy as the red grous, 
or Tetrao Scoticus of Latham. A musk-ox was seen 
by some of the men who were on shore yesterday, 
one of whom fired at him, and, according to his own 
account, wounded him, but not mortally, for, after 
spurring or tossing up the ground for a little time, 
he took to the hills with greater speed than an animal 
of his shape was supposed capable of using. Al- 
though we have not yet seen many of these animals, 
it is very evident that this land must be frequented, 
if not constantly inhabited, by them in great num- 
bers: for their bones and horns are found scattered 
about in all directions, and nearly the whole of 
the carcase of one of them was seen to-day by a 
* A party went also to gather coals yesterday, and although it 
may be said that they were pretty successful when the quantity 
they collected is compared with what we have usually seen, 
yet IL am not inclined to believe that we shall replenish our stock 
of fuel much in this country, unless we have the good fortune to 
discover a bed of coal,—for, after some hours’ search in the ’ 
place where it appeared to be most abundant, they only brought 
on board about half a bushel. 
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