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HUNTING. 
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minated on the north coast of Siberia. Our wintering, there^ 
fore, will not enrich Arctic literature with any new bear stories— 
a very sensible difficulty for the writer himself. Wolves, on the 
other hand, occur on the tundra in sufficient abundance, even if 
one or other of the wolves found in mist and drifting snow, 
and saluted with shot, turned out, on a critical determination of 
species, to be our own dogs. At least, this was the case with the 
“ wolf,” that inveigled one of the crew into shooting a ball one 
dark night right through the thermometer case, fortunately 
HARES FROM CHURCH LAND. 
without injuring the instruments, and with no other result than 
that he had afterwards to bear an endless number of jokes from 
his comrades on account of his wolf-hunt. Foxes, white, red 
and black, also occurred here in great numbers, but they were 
at that season difficult to get at, and besides they had perhaps 
withdrawn from the coast. Hares, on the other hand, maintained 
themselves during the whole winter at Yinretlen, by day partly 
out on the ice partly on the cape, by night in the neighbourhood 
