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for its prey, quiet and motionless for hours, but as usual it was 
wary and shy, so that it was only with difficulty that the hunter 
could get within range of it. At some places there extended 
between the foot of the loomery ’’ and the sea a stone-bestrewn 
beach, which at high water was mostly covered by the se.a, and 
at low water was full of shallow salt-water pools. Here had 
settled two Polar bears that were soon killed, one by Lieutenant 
PBEOBBASCHENIE ISLAND. 
(After a sketch by O. Nordquist.) 
Brusewitz, the other by Captain Johannesen. The bears had 
evidently been on the hunt for looms, which along with their 
young, large as rotges and already able to swim, were swimming 
in the pools of water at the foot of the “ loomery,” and above all 
perhaps they were lying in wait for birds which by some accident 
happened to fall down from the breeding-place. In the sea no 
small number of seals w^ere seen, and but a few hours before 
our arrival at the island we had sailed past herds of walrus. 
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