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more fond of going up than down if possible, we went a little 

 farther up, and thus got above the flock. It did not observe us 

 immediately, and we lay down quietly watching it. The party 

 consisted of 7 cows, 3 bulls and I calf. The above named 

 young bull came just up to the troop trying to approach, but 

 the old chief bull a very vigorous animal with a large cake of 

 winter wool on his back rushed immediately against him. 

 Snorting, snuffing and scraping the earth with his fore legs he 

 approached the forward guest sideways , the young bull ran 

 away a little, and the same scene was repeated , the other 

 animals looking on quietly. Then suddenly the old bull went 

 for him, the young bull ran away in a hurry, and both of them 

 disappeared, wildly galloping. The chief bull being away we 

 used our chance to go for the herd. For a long time we had 

 had a clear understanding that it was impossible for us to 

 catch adult animals, if we should catch a calf, the herd 

 must he shot down. Divided in two parties we went down on 

 each side of the flock. As soon as we had got a little down, 

 the herd observed us. The calf walking a little above the 

 others together with a cow it had sucked a little before, and 

 that therefore probably was its mother, sprang up to the others, 

 that instantly formed a circle round it and pressed it into the 

 middle. All the animals turned their heads outward ; so they 

 were taking up their position of defence. Snuffing and snorting, 

 their noses turned towards the earth, the animals were ready to 

 receive the enemy. But the enemy was not now polar wolves, 

 but something much worse: men with guns. — By the two 

 first shots two animals fell, it was strange to see a trembling 

 go through the herd, the animals pressed closer round the 

 calf, by the next 4 shots 3 animals fell, and a bull went away, 

 shot in his lung; soon he fell, soon after a cow fell. The 

 two cows, now left, pressed the calf between them, then one 

 fell bleeding; the other protected the calf. Just a the same 

 moment the chiet bull returned; he stopped for a moment. 



