July in Arctic Seas 
By July the stock of specimens aboard called to be 
worked into shape. 
Arctic birds are hard to prepare, owing to their fat. Eider 
skins, for example, are covered with this, and one must first 
scrape very thoroughly, if he would have the preservative 
take effect on the skin. This work had to be crudely done, 
FOUR GUNS BROUGHT DOWN 36 EIDER 
and the skins were later sent to Berlin to be tanned, and to 
the States for mounting. 
Messrs. Lerner and Riemeyer, in charge of the Berlin 
Lokal-Anzeiger’s Polar Expedition—the latter as artist,— 
dropped in, along with the Norwegians, to-day. Their expe¬ 
dition is sailing about Spitzbergen in a small steamer, The 
Express. 
At three in the morning of July 2d we weighed anchor, 
and reached Temple Mountain shortly after. Dividing into 
two parties, a sea-parrot hunt was enjoyed. 
On July 4th we touched a head-land of Prince Charles 
Foreland, near Foreland Island, to hunt birds; for nearly 
everywhere on the boggy island eiders made their homes— 
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July 2d 
July 4 th 
