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A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN. 
lost in stripping our schooner of all her gay attire, and 
she was left secure, resting for a season until another 
spring would find her ready for an enterprise we hope 
will be as successful and inspiriting as our own had 
been. With the schooner will go our most hearty good 
wishes, and that her next venture be as prosperous as 
ours had been, is our unfeigned wish. 
The total number of animals taken during the 
voyage was two hundred and thirty-seven seals, two 
whales, two narwhal, two bears, and thirty-three 
reindeer, besides a large number of smaller game, 
birds, &c. 
Surely it only requires a personal acquaintance with 
the trifling difficulties presented by the navigation of 
these Spitzbergen seas to satisfy any unprejudiced 
person respecting the superiority of this route over 
any other known Arctic highway. To gain the 
northern shore of Spitzbergen is a matter of easy 
attainment in most years, as may be proved by 
the regular appearance there, year after year, of 
a few poorly equipped fishing vessels, built of ordi¬ 
nary pine wood and of small tonnage, in no way 
specially fitted for contending with the ice. There is 
no kind of inducement to the captains of these little 
vessels to go beyond the shore's and bays of Spitz¬ 
bergen, and it is therefore not to be wondered 
