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restlessly and nervously, and trotted away to a higher mountain 

 lying behind, where I lost sight of it for some hours. Not till about 

 midnight did the animal appear again, following the bottom of a 

 deep-lying, dried-up river bed, this time about 120 meters away 

 from the carcass. From a low mountain knoll the wolf stood star- 

 ing and violently snuffing down towards me, till a rifle ball quickly 

 made an end of its life. 



It proved to be an old female with much worn canine teeth 

 and blunt nails. With exception of the long hairs on the top of 

 the back which have bluish grey points, and a spot on the upper 

 side of the tail a little below the root of the tail, having the same 

 bluish grey colour, the animal is white. Yet the back of the ears 

 has a greyish yellow tint. 



On the newly shot, unskinned animal I took the following 

 measurements : 



Length from point of muzzle to root of tail 108 cm. 



Total length of the tail 42 - 



Head from neck to muzzle 30 - 



Length of the ear 10 - 



Breadth of the ear 10 - 



The wolf that was shedding its fur, was well nourished, almost 

 fat, and weighed 35 kilogrammes. In the stomach the animal had 

 ample rests of tallow and musk-ox hairs, fetched doubtlessly from 

 the above mentioned shot animals. 



The same night — about VI -2 hours after I left the place — 

 Mylius-Erichsen, B. Thostrup, Jarner and Johansen arrived there 

 to take some of the meat. While they were lying down at a di- 

 stance to rest after the walk, two white animals appeared near the 

 meat, and according to the statement of all the eye-witnesses they 

 were wolves, apparently somewhat smaller than the newly killed 

 specimen. Mylius-Erichsen aimed a shot at one of the animals, 

 but probably because the twilight had fallen and the distance was 

 too great, it remained unhurt and fled. 



In order to get a chance of seeing the animals mj'self, and of 

 shooting them eventually, I kept watch by the carcasses of the 

 musk-oxen during the following night, in company with B. Tho- 

 strup, but this time I did not see any wolf. As a couple of white 

 arctic foxes appeared near the carcass and showed themselves rather 

 forward, I asked the observers later on, if it were not possible to 

 make a mistake between foxes and wolves, but they denied this 

 unanimously, and it seems to me that there is no reason to doubt 

 their words. The fact that on my excursions in the environs of the 



