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CHAP. XV. 



Bitter Cold. Reindeer-shooting. Three right and left 

 Shots. Delight of the Sailors. Black Fox. Ponche a 

 la Spitzberg. Description of the Eeindeer. High Con 

 dition he attains. Excellence of his Flesh. His Igno 

 rance of Man. Anecdotes. Fine Valley. Unexplored 

 Channel. Near Heinlopen Straits. Unjust Attack. 

 Marrow-bones. Ice-borne Boulders. Good &quot; Bag.&quot; 

 Two singular Mountains. Thymen s Straits. Meri 

 torious Deer. Receipt for Kabobs. Splendid Deer 

 Forest. Eejoin the Sloop. 



BY seven in the evening we had reached the 

 anchorage opposite to a valley where I had 

 killed some reindeer in 1858 ; but it being 

 Sunday we did not land, nor was there any 

 inducement to do so, as we could see the 

 entire valley with telescopes from the deck, 

 and there was not a single reindeer visible 

 in it. 



On the 25th we went ashore in both boats 

 at 4 A.M. of a bitterly cold morning (thermo 

 meter 16 in the companion-way). After 

 hauling the boats high and dry out of the reach 



