Meanwhile the ladies enjoyed a stroll over the coal crop¬ 
pings, getting shots at eider and geese. 
Our deer hunt extended on into the 29th, when Lear- 
month, out alone, brought in two more. 
On shore, the winter hut of a reindeer-hunter also proved 
a point of interest. Like the houses of the Labrador livey- 
eres, it was a miserable, sod-covered shack, with a couple of 
deer skulls at the top and a window set deep in one side. 
Within were the furs of Polar bear and the pelts of Arctic 
foxes. 
At this place we were fortunate in obtaining the rarest 
and perhaps most valuable single specimen of the trip—a 
king eider duck. 
In addition, a long-tailed duck, a herring gull, three eiders, 
a gray goose, and four brown-breasted waders were bagged. 
June was at an end, but the weather continued to favor. 
We men took a walk to a lagoon, a mile or two inland, 
and succeeded in adding two gray geese, three long-tailed 
duck, an eider, two red-throated loons or divers (Urinator 
lumme), five snippets, and a white-cheeked goose (Branta 
leucopsis) to our collection. 
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