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saw the strange sight of the dying herd and immediately sprang 

 up to defend the calf. But also the old bull was forced to 

 give way, only by the fourth shot he sank down ^) and bored 

 one of his horns into the earth, he rose again, but his vigour was 

 exhausted, he went out a little to the side (Fig. 14) sank down 

 and fell dying (Fig 15). We now tried to chase the left cow on 

 to the beach ; she had sought cover beside the killed bull, and 

 the little calf pressed closely to her (Fig. 16). The cow walked 

 a little, but then turned towards us, fell and died. The calf 

 took up its position at the hind legs of the cow (Fig. 17) 

 snorting at our approach, a few times we got hold of it, but it 

 slipped away again, still it ran only round the cow, and it was 

 not long before it was tied; it pulled hard to get free and 

 must have worked too hard, for having got on board, it be- 

 came ill and died in the morning of the next day, though the 

 transport did not last long. It was a bull-calf, somewhat 

 smaller than the other calf, that was caught in Jameson Land, 

 it had not yet changed its dirty brown tufted calf's dress and 

 was thus a little younger than the other. Skin, skeleton and 

 bowels are now in the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen. 



While we were shooting at this herd, another was seen 

 from the ship a little farther in ; it was galloping past the 

 valley and counted about 14 animals; probably there were 3 

 calves in it. Of the killed herd as much meat as possible 

 was saved, but order having been given by the captain not to 

 save anything but meat, as the ship was to leave Fleming Inlet 

 already in the evening, unfortunately there was not any oppor- 

 tunity to get any of the skeletons of the killed animals, only 

 a skull was taken on board. Of the cows of the herd 2 had, 

 strange to say, milk in their udders, so both of them have 



It is quite curious to see how hard lived the old bulls are ; it is seldom 

 that they fall for the first shot, and dying they are possessed of great 

 vigour. 



