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headless remains, and then follow the party to the 
ship, sniffing at the air laden with the odour of the 
departed one. As it lingered on the shore, a man 
quietly landed from the boat and shot it. 
Here was another instance out of many we witnessed 
on this journey of the affection of these poor, soli¬ 
tary creatures, leading them even to inevitable 
death. 
There is some dispute respecting the identity of the 
American and European reindeer, as to whether they 
are the same animal or only varieties. That there is 
some distinction we are satisfied, having compared the 
massive horns we brought home with others we have 
seen from Greenland and America. 
It may be that the fly, wdiich is not only a torment 
to the European reindeer, but is an actual injury to the 
skin its grub has taken up its abode in, is absent from 
these higher latitudes, and the comparative freedom 
from this scourge may be in some remote way the 
cause of its finer and better development. 
Dr. Hayes fed his party luxuriously on reindeer all 
the winter at Port Foulke, in Smith's Sound, not many 
miles from where Kane's party almost starved a few 
years before. Behind Holsteenberg are valleys full of 
reindeer; and Mr. Brown heard tales of people climb¬ 
ing the hills in that vicinity and looking down into 
