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and neglect to lay in a winter supply of food; so 
that when the “ banyan ” days come they bitterly 
repent their folly, and weary for the bleached carcases 
up the frozen fjords. 
Notwithstanding this, regularly as the season comes 
round they are off again to the shooting from far and 
near, and repeat the same improvident course; nor, if 
they like it, has anybody a right to complain. In all 
verity enjoyments few enough fall to the lot of these 
hyperborean hunters. However, the result of this 
indiscriminate slaughter is now being felt in the 
decrease of the reindeer in many parts where they 
were once common. They are no longer found on 
Disco Island as in the days of Cranz and Fabricius. 
Indeed there are now very few shot in Mid-Greenland, 
and many of the natives are giving up the hunt for 
them altogether. 
Holsteenberg, another Greenland settlement, is a 
favourite locality; the hunting-ground is behind the 
large inlets where the ice lies far back, and where the 
land most free from the ice has been found. The animal 
cannot travel well on ice, and the difficulty of transport¬ 
ing its food on long journeys is another obstacle to its 
use in Arctic travel. The Eskimo make long journeys 
over the frozen sea along the coasts of Greenland in 
the winter with dog, in preference to the reindeer- 
