. The log of the "Laura" in polar seas; a hunting cruise from Tromsö, Norway to Spitsbergen, the polar ice off east Greenland and the island of Jan Mayen in the summer of 1906, kept by Bettie Fleischmann Holmes . found in large numbers in the corries amongthe surrounding mountains. Five rifles wentout in two parties, and the joint bag amountedto nine deer. Carl killed his first deer, a fine,big fellow. The hunters tramped from sixteento eighteen miles of very bad going, on accountof sharp rocks, deep snow and bogs. Several sailors accompany each huntingparty, for the bringing of the deer to th
. The log of the "Laura" in polar seas; a hunting cruise from Tromsö, Norway to Spitsbergen, the polar ice off east Greenland and the island of Jan Mayen in the summer of 1906, kept by Bettie Fleischmann Holmes . found in large numbers in the corries amongthe surrounding mountains. Five rifles wentout in two parties, and the joint bag amountedto nine deer. Carl killed his first deer, a fine,big fellow. The hunters tramped from sixteento eighteen miles of very bad going, on accountof sharp rocks, deep snow and bogs. Several sailors accompany each huntingparty, for the bringing of the deer to the shipis an arduous task and tests to the utmost thestrength of these hardy Norsemen. As soonas an animal is killed, it is gralloched, and thehead is usually cut off and left behind, forunfortunately the antlers during the summermonths are in velvet, and the hunter rarelyfinds a specimen worth keeping as a legs of the deer are then bound together,and the sailor by a dexterous pull works hishead through the loop thus formed betweenthe body and legs, and at the same time bendsfar forward, thus causing the carcass to restupon his neck and shoulders in such a way asnot to impede his walking. With t
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