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sportsman was ever to the front when large game 

 were to be got at, and seldom missed a kill when 

 a chance offered. On that day no less than twenty- 

 five white whale succumbed to the harpoons of the 

 Russians, who were hugely delighted at their good 

 fortune, and celebrated the occasion with uproarious 

 mirth that night on board their schooners. 



!N"o article professing to treat of sport in Nova 

 Zemla would be complete without some mention of 

 the walrus or, as it is often called, the sea-horse 

 though this animal has now become so rare in the 

 more easily accessible parts of the coast that we only 

 saw two the whole time we were in Nova Zemla. 

 As the walrus yields a by no means insignificant 

 trophy in its pair of tusks of splendid ivory, and 

 is, moreover, not particularly easy to kill, of course 

 it must always be one of the objects of the chase 

 to the adventurous visitor. I am sorry not to be 

 able to give any precise account, from actual experi- 

 ence, of the method in which the walrus is captured ; 

 but those who take an interest in the subject cannot 

 do better than refer for instructions (!) to the works 

 of Albertus Magnus, who died in 1280 A.D., and who 

 has left some account of the matter. Not having the 

 work at hand, I am not able to quote what cannot 

 but be a spicy narrative in the original; but the 

 account is alluded to in Nordenskib'ld's 'Voyage of 

 the Vega,' in which a woodcut, reproduced from Olaus 

 Magnus (1555), illustrates the text From this it 



