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driven away, entirely disappeared when the little auks began to make their 

 appearance on the cliffs. 



On August 9th, the travellers saw the last of these birds. They were 

 six in number, sitting on the last ice-floe passed, on the edge of the open 

 water in the Barents Sea, south of Franz Josef Land. 



