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course of the summer, they cannot procure 

 fresh water, and are necessitated to drink 

 the warm sea water, they are infaUibly tor- 

 mented with griping pains, with strong 

 spasms in the region of the stomach, and 

 pain in the lower part of the abdomen, ac- 

 companied with bloody urine. This is a 

 species of colic, and is called iillem. It 

 generally lasts but one day, rarely two. 

 The same thing happens if they drink be- 

 fore they have broke their fast in a morn- 

 ing. 



Every where around the huts I observed 

 horns of reindeer lying neglected, and it is 

 remarkable that they were gnawed, and 

 sometimes half devoured, by squirrels. 



At this season the young sprouting horns 

 on the heads of those animals had attained 

 but two or three quarters of an ell in length, 

 covered with a soft and tender skin, so that 

 I noticed, here and there, small drops of 

 blood, from the gnats having stung them. 

 The reindeer has four nipples, besides two 

 spurious ones farther back, which very 



