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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 
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there, principally for the hunting of the mountain fox and the 
reindeer. Of their hunting voyages we know very little, but 
that they had been widely prosecuted is shown by the remains 
of their dwellings or huts on nearly all the fjords of Spitzbergen. 
NORWEGIAN HUNTING SLOOP. 
The Proeven, employed by the Swedish Expedition to the Yenisej in 1875. 
They seem to have often wintered, probably because the 
defective build of their vessels only permitted them to sail to 
and from Spitzbergen during the height of summer, and they 
could not thus take part without wintering in the autumn 
