50 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
NOTES FROM AN ARCTIC JOURNAL. 
By H. W. Feirpen, F.G-.S., C.M.Z.S. 
(Continued from p. 24.) 
After the sun left us at mid-day, which occurred on the 
11th October, the twilight sensibly decreased day by day. On 
the 25th I noticed in my journal that at mid-day only a glow of 
pale amber showed in the south-east, against which the contour 
of the Greenland coast was just visible; the ice and hummocks 
in shade looked a dark purple, the flat floes white. Whilst 
walking, we came across the fresh tracks of a Lemming, which I 
followed; they crossed the ice-foot, out on to the pack, and the 
little animal had burrowed down through snow to a tidal-crack; 
its return footsteps could be traced to the land. Subsequently I 
daily observed traces of similar movements on the part of this 
rodent to the water, until it became too dark even to notice 
their tracks, which look like a pattern for linen embroidery, in 
the white snow. 
On the 29th October Quartermaster Bury, when on watch, 
heard what he considered to be a pack of Wolves howling in the 
distance, and I have little doubt of the correctness of his report. 
Our indefatigable hunter, Dr. Moss, borrowed my snow-shoes and 
went some distance inland, but found no tracks of Wolves, though 
those of Hares were not uncommon It must be remembered 
that one or two Hares when on the move will make an enormous 
number of tracks in snow in a few hours. Moss remarked 
that even if he had come across a Hare, it would have been too 
dark to shoot it. 
From the end of October till the return of the sun in the 
following year, the notices in my journal which have any bearing 
on Natural History are so few and scattered that it is out of the 
question endeavouring to bring together a sequence of observa- 
tions; but as the sole value of any such intermittent notices 
consists in the exactness of the record, I do not scruple to 
transfer, word for word, from my journal the few items which 
may be considered to bear on the subject :— 
“October 31st.—Hauled up the net, containing a dog, which 
had been let down to the bottom of the fire-hole, a depth of 
ten fathoms; though it had only been in the water six days, the 
