. 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 . boats appurtenances, and are particularlyessential, since the dense sudden fogs of theseregions often obscure the ship so completely,even at a short distance, that it is an easymatter to get lost in the labyrinth of ice. As the boat approaches the seal, the hunterskneel in the bow with nothing visible buttheir white-capped heads, the oarsmen lieflat, and even the steersman, whose whit
. 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 . boats appurtenances, and are particularlyessential, since the dense sudden fogs of theseregions often obscure the ship so completely,even at a short distance, that it is an easymatter to get lost in the labyrinth of ice. As the boat approaches the seal, the hunterskneel in the bow with nothing visible buttheir white-capped heads, the oarsmen lieflat, and even the steersman, whose whitecoat makes him less distinguishable from thesurrounding ice, rows in a crouching posi-tion. As I say elsewhere, it is difficult toshoot a seal — that is, to shoot him in such away as to get possession of him when the bullet hits him in the head andkills instantly, he flops from the ice into thewater and usually does not rise again, al-though he may be mortally wounded, foreven after death the carcass will not holes are to be found only where there isbay or shore ice or far in on large ice fields; onthe floes the seal invariably lies near the edge. [38] b-xood no a-xauj \o^^ m,U ^. I -xMM \o ^nMnM^ boa IS 11), as pubK> Eacii - harpoons, picks, a T compcist, ^ auu Dib- -uded in s .!.„!,. e the ■ ■ By 11,six seal were on board ..Olll Lll€ ouching posi-, :. iS difficult toohoot him in such aw >n of him when shot. I . ■.. him in the head and k flops from the ice into the w Hv dnos not rise again, ~al- iV mortally wounded, for the carcass will not floatr^>»ind onlv where Making off blubber
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