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Spitzbergen seas. He had been looking for 

 walruses on the Thousand Islands for ten days 

 past ; but had got nothing except one of our 

 dead ones. The Bergen schooner had found 

 a herd of several hundreds on one of these 

 islands ; but the men most indiscreetly attacked 

 them to windward, and the walruses taking 

 the alarm, all rushed into the sea. This must 

 have been the more provoking for the unlucky 

 schooner, as they had only killed fifteen all 

 summer. 



Mr, Holmengreen also called to pay his 

 respects to us or our venison; and we were 

 much surprised to find him a stout, well- 

 dressed, benevolent-looking, elderly party in a 

 brown wig! Altogether he had much more 

 the appearance of a well-to-do London mer 

 chant than a Spitzbergen walrus-hunter; and 

 yet this man is said to be one of the pluckiest 

 and most skilful harpooners who ever transfixed 

 a walrus. 



In the afternoon my steward informed me, 

 with a very serious air indeed, that we were 

 &quot; quite out of sugar,&quot; and he suggested that it 

 would be a &quot; good plan to borrow some from 

 the schooners ; &quot; so I sent the captains each 

 four fat quarters of deer, and desired one of 



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