. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. make a very pleasant acquaintance with the two white wolves caught by him in Ellesmereland.^ ? ,_ It is rather interesting to observe how the polar wolves, during thelast eight to ten years, must havewandered from the north down tothe east coast of Greenland. Allthe observations made by Nathorst,Kolthoff, and our Danish Antarcticexpedition result in the followingfacts, viz.: there have been foundplenty of tracks of polar wolves fromthe north to Scoresby Sound, thewolves very likely wandering aboutboth singly and in pairs; th
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. make a very pleasant acquaintance with the two white wolves caught by him in Ellesmereland.^ ? ,_ It is rather interesting to observe how the polar wolves, during thelast eight to ten years, must havewandered from the north down tothe east coast of Greenland. Allthe observations made by Nathorst,Kolthoff, and our Danish Antarcticexpedition result in the followingfacts, viz.: there have been foundplenty of tracks of polar wolves fromthe north to Scoresby Sound, thewolves very likely wandering aboutboth singly and in pairs; the rein-deer, which in the year 1891 Eyderfound in large flocks in Greenlaad,have completely disappeared. The following facts relating tothe subject, for which I am indebtedto the kindness of Captain OttoSverdrup, with leave to use them,will be found to be of interest. I\ii\M \M) EVE. need hardly observe that Captain * An article on this animal will be published in a future number of Ahimal Life, and also one, by the sameauthor, on The Scandinavian Elk.—Ed. 376. The White Wolf 377 Sverdrup, during the last four years, has been exploring until then unknown parts ofArctic America in a direction west of North Greenland. Captain Sverdrup and his people came very often in contact with white were always objects for powder and shot because of their attacks on the Eskimodogs belonging to the Fram; all other animals Captain Sverdrup gave stringentorders not to shoot unless there was aplausible reason for doing so. He told methat he had often gone a long way roundto avoid coming in contact with a musk-oxbull. He would not even kill a bull inself-defence. One night, having gone to rest in histent, Captain Sverdrup was awakened bythe barking and howling of his dogs. Oncoming outside he saw his three dogs beingattacked by eight white wolves, five ofwhich he shot down, while three managedto escape. Another time he came acrossthe yet warm and bleeding carcase of amusk-cow, which
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