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several Esquimaux dogs’ skulls were procured. The very large 
and remarkable Kematode parasite, Eiistrongijlus gigas, from an 
Esquimaux dog, had already been obtained from Inspector Ander- 
son at Disco. 
The ship was now in the thick of the Narwhal fishery, and 32 
individuals were killed. A male skeleton was procured here, as 
well as four small foetuses and various anatomical preparations. 
On the 21st a small Black whale, a “ sucker,” about 18 feet 
long, Avith whalebone 18 inches long, was captured; the mother 
Avas sought for three days, hut in vain. The skeleton of this Avhale 
AA'as unhappily lost, OAving to the anxiety on board to procure the 
mother, and nothing Avas obtained from it except a supply of the 
common parasite Cyamus ceti, L. 
On the 27th, again running south Avard, surface-nettings Avere 
taken off Erick Point, near Scott’s Inlet. 
The 30th July found the ship three miles off Coutt’s Inlet, and 
here SAvabbings Avere taken at a depth of 130 fathoms on a muddy 
bottom. This locality Avas very rich. Antedon esciwichtii was 
abundant, atid several specimens of its large and beautiful stalked 
larva Avere obtained. Among the Annelids a Nereis with a curious 
flattened tube is remarkable. Besides the Pycnogons previously 
obtained, Ave have here Nymplion elegans and sluiteri, the latter 
iieAv to Greenland, and an apparently neAv species. 
On 1st August, the ship lying in Hamilton Inlet to take bn board 
a supply of fresh water, a ramble on the shore yielded a number of 
dead shells and Crustacea, and a small specimen, of gold-bearing 
quartz, for which the locality is known among whaling Captains, 
Among the Crustacea was a specimen of Arctiims hafini, in a very 
large Idotliea sabin% about 4 inches long, , 
Next day the pehuc bones Avere found of a large Avhale (with 12 
feet bone), caught two years before by the s.s. “Aurora.” 
Tavo days later the ship Avas again off Erick Point, which lay 20 
miles to the E.S.E., and over a well-knoAvn bank in 60 to 100 fathoms 
Avater, Avith a bottom of mud and gravel. The dredge, swabs, 
and sunk net were sent down. ^ Among the contents 'wqvq Nymplion 
longitarse and microrhynchum (?), both new. to Davis Straits ; a 
gigantic Caprella, over 3 inches long ; the extraordinarily aberrant 
Isopod Munnopsis typicay Sars, only knoAvn hitherto from much 
