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probably calved in the same spring, but one calf must have 

 died; perhaps the wolf had played its pranks here. 



In Polhems Dal a single bull was seen on August 28"", 

 this was the last musk-ox, seen during the expedition. 



In all about 400 animals had been seen. Of these 18 

 animals had been killed, besides the two herds of in all 24 

 animals; of these 4 were cows, the rest mostly single bulls; 

 besides 2 calves were caught, both bull calves; of these 

 one died. 



The number of the herds we saw was very different, from 

 three till more than 20. In some cases it has been decided, 

 how many of each sex were found in the herd thus: a party 

 of 3 animals (Sabine Island) 1 ^, 2 Ç (one $ had scarcely before 

 had calf and was perhaps only a 2 years old heifer); a party 

 of 4 animals (Fleming Inlet) 2 $', 2 $; a party of 5 animals 

 (Fleming Inlet) 2 (J, 2 Ç and a yearling calf; a party of 11 ani- 

 mals (Fleming Inlet) Z $, \ 2 and 1 calf {S\; a party of 14 

 animals (Jameson Land) 1 (Î, 5 Ç, 2 calves; a party of 15 animals 

 (Jameson Land) 11$, 3^, 1 calf ((?). 



On the whole only 13 calves were seen, but certainly there 

 must have been more, for it is often difficult at some distance 

 to discover calves in a herd, and in several of the herds 

 that were seen at some distance , there were certainly calves. 

 Therefore one cannot rashly say that of all the animals we 

 saw, only 13 were calves; the 13 calves are dispersed over 

 herds of about 88 animals, if one says now that 12 single bulls 

 belong to the 88 animals in the herds, it will be found that 13 

 calves belong to every 100 animals, or with a round number: 

 that 10 ^/o are calves. We saw never more than 2 calves in a 

 herd, but on former expeditions more have been seen. On the 

 second German expedition a party of 15 animals with 4 calves 

 was seen in Kuhn Island on July 11*^ 1870. Ryder met with a 

 herd of 9 animals at Cape Stewart, of them 1 old bull, one 



