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driven away, entirely disappeared when the httle auks began to make their 

 appearance on the difts. 



On August 9th, the travellers saw the last of these birds. They were 



six in number, sitting on the last ice-floe passed, on the edge of the open 

 water in the Barents Sea, south of Franz Josef Land. 



