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1899 a Swedish exploring exposition captured two 

 on the eastern coast of Greenland, both of which 

 were sold to the wild animal man, Carl Hagenbeck, 

 of Hamburg. The Duke of Bedford bought one of 

 these from Hagenbeck and the Berlin Zoological 

 Garden bought the other. As far as I know 



THE SKETCHES 



here published are the first ones ever made from a 

 live musk-ox. 



To make these drawings I had to enter the cage 

 with the animal, and I must say that I found it as 

 gentle and well behaved a young lady as ever posed 

 for me; she was at that time (March, 1902) 

 twenty-one months old. "Olive," as they called her 

 up at the Zoo, stood two feet three inches high 

 at the shoulder, with a total length of four feet 

 ten inches, as measured by Mr. Hornaday. She 

 had short ears, protected inside and out by a thick 

 growth of woolly hair, the actual length of the ear, 

 according to my measurement was four and seven- 

 tenths inches. She wore a thick woolly coat with 

 long hair on the outside to shed the sleet and rain. 

 There was a thick mane like a long cushion reach- 

 ing from the back of her head to a point back of 

 her shoulders. The hair was long and thick around 

 her throat, protecting the neck and hanging down 

 over her legs to her knees. The general color was 

 a dark brown, with a yellowish white short hair 

 upon the exposed part of the legs, and a gray 

 streak on the head extending from one horn to the 



