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of the shore. We landed, and I killed nine of them 

 without much trouble, and, as these were thorough- 

 ly unsophisticated animals, I might easily have shot 

 as many more, but I got disgusted with such a bur- 

 lesque upon sport and left them alone. I was much 

 amused by one of these deer — a well-grown stag — 

 who, upon receiving my bullet in his ribs, made a 

 furious attack upon a companion of about his own 

 size, evidently under the impression that the bullet- 

 wound was the result of a treacherous prod from 

 the horns of his friend. 



While the sailors were carrying down these deer 

 I gathered a lot of drift-wood, and soon made a 

 roaring fire, whereat we boiled some coffee and made 

 a glorious fry of chops and kidneys in the iron bal- 

 ing-ladle of the boat, topping up with broiled mar- 

 row-bones — a very different article, O my dear read- 

 er, from the bestial compound of brains and lard 

 rammed into old bones which you have often eaten 

 in London, and imagined, in the innocence of your 

 heart, to be real marrow. 



When standing on the rocks up the small sound, 

 I had observed a large bay on the opposite side of 

 the fiord to be full of floating ice, and we now sail- 

 ed across to that in hopes of falling in with seals. 

 It was very suitable ice, but the night was too cold 

 for seals, and we only found two on many square 

 miles of ice. I shot them both, but one of them 

 was lost. I observed a great many large, dark-col- 

 ored stones lying on different pieces of this ice, and 



