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conceive. Their bellowing was horrible to hear, and as seemingly 

 there was going to be no end to it, we thought it better to thank 

 them for their attentions. So we trooped in a body down to the 

 crack, which, now that it was low water, was some six or eight feet 

 high, took up our stand on it, and proceeded to tease the walruses. 



Arclixopteris urchetypus Schmalh,, FOSSILIZED FEHN FROM THE DEVONIAN*. 

 GAASEFJOED. | Natural size. 



They are animals which repay teasing, and it must have been an 

 eminently comical sight, in this lovely light summer evening : from 

 the ice- wall yells and wonderful gesticulations, seconded by rushing 

 lumps of ice shot into the middle of the herd. Outside were 

 the infuriated animals rising straight up from the sea from their 

 flippers upwards, roaring and beating the water to a scum. 



We decided to take back a load of meat with us, and Peder 

 sent one of the walruses a bullet. But as they could not be 



