c.u’T. maukiiam’s voyage to Hudson’s bat. 
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Xo Keiiuleer were actually seen alive by any of the Observers 
attached to the station at Ashe Inlet. Venison was also brought 
by the Kskimos from Cape AVolstenholnio to the station at 
Digges Island. 
Lepus glacialis. Alpine Hare. 
Is not uncommon in the neighbourhood of Ashe Inlet. Large 
numbers were shot on liabbit Island. Xo Hares were seen on 
Digges islands. 
Myodes tououatus. The Greenland Lemming. 
One of these little animals was taken at Ashe Inlet. Captain 
iMarkham captured another on Digges Islands. At neither locality 
did they a])pear to be common. These specimens were sent to the 
Lritish Museum. This is the .same species that was found in such 
abundance in Grinnell Laml, twenty degrees further north, by the 
I'ritish Polar Expedition in 1875 and 187n. 
Delpuinaptekus i.EUCAS. V’hite Whale. 
When Captain Markham arrived at Fort Churchill in the end of 
July, considerable numbers of these animals were being captured 
by the natives, and many carcases of these Whales were lying 
about the shore. 
Pal.ena mysticetus. Atlantic Eight Whale. 
A “ Eight Whale ” was seen by Captain Eamie on the morning 
of the 10th of July, shortly after the “Alert” entered Hudson’s 
Straits. 
Eal.enopteua (1). Finner. 
Two or three of these animals were seen off the coast of 
Labrador, but they were not .spcciKcally identilied. 
IMonodon monoceros. Narwhal. 
Five Narwhals were seen together in the afternoon of July 11th 
in the centre of Hudson’s Straits. 
TniciiKCiius ROSMAUUs. AValrus. 
Many of these animals were seen in groups of three to seven on 
the loose ice in the latitude of Nachwak. Two were observed by 
Captain Eamie in Hudson’s Straits on the 10th of July, and one 
was killed at Ashe Inlet the day prior to the arrival of the 
“ Alert.” They are plentiful in the neighbourhood of Digges 
Islands. 
