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the tongue alone is brought away. In this way the 
waste of deer meat is enormous, and it is so nutritious 
it is very strange that some means of preserving it on 
the spot for exportation has not been devised: this 
meat would surely be profitable in these days, when 
the flesh of the Australian kangaroo is a marketable 
article in England at the present time. We landed 
with the determination of examining and making a 
thorough exploration of the land immediately abreast 
of the position of our schooner, our opinion at the 
time being that the magnificent valley we could see 
would be found to wind in a gentle course, under 
some high and very rugged mountains, whose lofty 
sides rose precipitously from the bay. In our in¬ 
tended land-survey we had some prospect also of 
falling in with some herd of reindeer, the place having- 
all the appearance of affording the animals sufficient 
inducement to attract them to it. 
Our party on this occasion was a large one, the 
men, whenever there seemed any likelihood of sport 
on foot, being evidently eager to be permitted to join in 
the adventure ; and my companion, at all times pleased 
to afford them whatever enjoyment they might join in 
whenever the duties on board the ship would allow of 
their absence, took with him whatever hands could 
be spared. It was this enjoyment of the men that 
