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ashore one day, that some reindeer came running quite near 

 the boat, and a party of 7 animals ran up to Ryder, one day 

 he was on shore in Jameson Land, took their stand at a distance 

 of 30 steps, and showed a great interest in Ryder's examining 

 the altitude of the sun. But the reindeer seen by Nathorst 

 were very shy and in this Nathorst sees a sign of the wolf 

 having not begun raging in these regions till the latest years. 



In all places where the ship expedition made its way forth 

 it found remains of the reindeer. Horns and hairs were seen 

 everywhere , as far down as Cape Dalton ; in Turner Sund 

 in Turner 0, one of the engineers found two skeletons of 

 reindeer, much gnawed off, but they lying in a place not 

 easily accessible, and the ship being on the point of leaving, 

 1 did not find any opportunity of seeing them. In Jameson 

 Land were found numerous horns, and some skulls, much 

 gnawed off, also in Fleming Inlet, but else we did not find 

 any distinct instance of any reindeer having been killed by a 

 wolf, except at Nordostbugt, where a shank was found, at 

 which still muscular fibres and sinews were hanging. After 

 our return home, Deichman has reported that he found the 

 skeleton of a reindeer in Jameson Land, killed by a wolf. 



Indeed, one should expect to find similar places of slaughter 

 in Jameson Land, as Nathorst found in Kierulfs 0, the 

 Reindeer being so very numerous here such a short time ago, 

 but this not happening, I feel inclined to mean, that the 

 reindeer have been chased away for a great part, that they 

 have sought away from the flat country, where the wolves so 

 much more easily have been able to hunt them, to the moun- 

 tainous regions deeper down in the inlets, and there sought a 

 natural defence; but for the present time of course this can be 

 nothing but a conjecture. 



Far to the South of Cape Dalton the reindeer has not 

 lived; it is not found at Angmagsalik, and scarcely ever was 

 there, as else its horns must still now and then be found, and 



