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sion to see ; the fact is that Deichmann does not include the 

 two bulls in the sum. Two bulls were walking near the party; 

 they joined it and «got the same fate as the troop» (Deichmann). 

 Some of the animals were grazing, others were chewing the 

 cud. One bull paired with one of the cows. The whole herd 

 was now killed, by and by, by Deichmann, the dog repeatedly 

 stopping the flying parly. The calf, a vigorous bull-calf was 

 caught and tied; 4 and a half hour it was lying tied, before a 

 sufficient number of sailors came up to carry it on board the 

 ship. Together with some other partakers of the expedition I 

 visited the place where the animals had been killed; they were 

 spread over a rather long stretch of ground, I counted then 

 16 killed animals in all, 11 cows, 4 bulls; one bull was seen 

 in the neighbourhood, he seemed wounded (Ditlevsen). Some 

 meat, some skins with the skulls of the killed animals were 

 secured, but -part of the meat of some animals that lay the 

 night through without being taken out, had already begun to 

 get tainted. 



During the first day the calf was on board, it was faint and 

 exhausted from the catching, but soon it grew so tame that 

 it walked freely about the deck; but it was discontented, when 

 nobody played with it. It eat very greedily leaves and twigs 

 from the willow, still, it also eat grass when it could get it; 

 by and by it grew accustomed to eating hay, softened in boiled 

 v^^ater, and crushed oats. Being hungry or discontented, it 

 lamented in the same way as a sucking-calf. Being teazed, it 

 snuffed and rushed against us. It was very dissatisfied with 

 the cat and the dog, it could not see them without snuffing 

 anrd rushing against them. It had evidently been born in the 

 same spring, had not yet got any horns, only the first small 

 rudiments, it had not yet changed its calf's dress on coming on 

 board. The two photographs Fig. 5 and 6 have been taken of it 

 on board «Antarctic» in the end of August 1900; on both 

 pictures it is seen busily eating willow. But the two photo- 



