CHAPTER X. 
u Jacet extra sidera Tellus 
Extra anni solisque vias.” 
We saw no foxes here ; in most of the other valleys 
we saw a few, but on no occasion could we secure a 
specimen. At this season the reindeer, finding food 
abundant, grow very fat, and their condition is at its 
best; roast haunch of venison, served up hot five hours 
after the stag has fallen, is food of the highest quality. 
And a neighbouring Russian hut, with its scant appli¬ 
ances, quickly serves us for our banquet-hall; drift¬ 
wood abounds. The vegetation on which the deer fattens 
is abundant, and is becoming dry and nutritious food for 
them, but in the winter here, when supplies grow short, 
the deer must suffer greatly; it serves us as well for fuel. 
We must follow the course of the ice day by day, as 
some good result may come from the record of our ob¬ 
servations here. We found the wind shifting again to 
the north on the 18 th of August, and bringing down 
upon us the ice, so we moved to the southward of the 
point. Here we lay one whole day, and then growing 
weary of this perpetual buffeting with the ice, we make 
