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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 
[chap. 
The life of the wild reindeer is best known from Spitzbergen. 
During summer it betakes itself to the grassy plains in the 
ice-free valleys of the island, in late autumn it withdraws— 
according to the walrus-hunters’ statements—to the sea-coast, in 
order to eat the seaweed that is thrown up on the beach, and in 
winter it goes back to the lichen-clad mountain heights in the 
REINDEER PASTURE. 
Green Harlionr on Spitzbergen, after a pbotograph taken by A. Envall on the 20tli July, 1873. 
interior of the country, where it appears to thrive exceedingly 
well, though the cold during winter must be excessively severe; 
for when the reindeer in spring return to the coast they are 
still very fat, but some weeks afterwards, when the snow has 
frozen on the surface, and a crust of ice makes it difficult for 
them to get at the mountain sides, they become so poor as 
