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Sund also, in Hurry Inlet, in Klitdalen and in Fleming Inlet. 

 In the regions here named, excrements were found in several 

 places; they consisted of hairs of the reindeer and fragments 

 of bone and, to be sure, they were wolves' excrements. Gene- 

 rally two traces were found together, so that the wolves pro- 

 bably often walk together in pairs, strolling about all over the 

 country. The traces were found along the beaches of the 

 river beds, through the valleys (for instance Ørsteds Dal and 

 Klitdalen); often the animals had run side by side over a long 

 distance. Only in one place a wolf was seen: on August 9, 

 near the place where INathorst had seen one the year before, 

 at Ryders Elv, and as then two were walking together; they 

 bathed themselves and played. They walked up to Hartz and 

 Kruuse and got quite near (c. 20 steps) ; unfortunately the hun- 

 ting of them failed completely, Hartz and Kruuse having only 

 revolvers ; the wolves ran away and crossed the flat river. 

 Later on they were again seen from the ship, but they escaped 

 from being killed. The same year as we were on the coast. 

 Kolthoff killed a wolf farther to the North, another was killed 

 by a whaler. 



Whether the wolf really not till lately has arrived to these 

 regions, or it has been there also in former years, cannot be 

 decided now. It does not seem to appear in very great numbers 

 at present; indeed, few have been seen. It is not quite pre- 

 cluded, that it has also before strolled about the north-east coast 

 of Greenland ; one of Svend Foyen's old sealers, Julius Hansen, 

 decidedly meant to have seen it on the ice, to the North of 

 Jan Mayen many years ago (communicated to me by Henry 

 Ette), and that it is not impossible, that the wolf may walk out 

 on the ice , is shown distinctly enough, by the above named 

 instance from West Greenland. Neither traces nor anything 

 else that might indicate the presence of the wolf, were seen 

 during Amdrup's boat expeditions. 



