108 OLAFSEN AND POVELSEN 5 in the air, and take him for one of their own species. When the fox gets to them, he seizes those that are nearest, and the others fly off. These animals sometimes quit the main land to proceed to the isles, particularly those near JBreedefiord. They also get upon the masses of ice, in order to be conveyed to such isles as are more distant: though this method does not always produce the desired effect; for it often happens that the ice does not stop near the isles, but carries the foxes out to sea. \\e were ocular witnesses of such a circumstance ; for we one day saw four foxes sitting on a rock of ice, one behind the other, the current carrying them rapidly out to sea. When a fox succeeds in gaining an island,- he commits considerable ravages there, and obliges the birds to desert it. As soon as the inhabitants find he has landed, they collect in the neighbouring isles in canoes (taking advantage of the spring, before the birds have arrived) and hunt the fox till they either catch him or force him to take to the sea. When this animal swims, he keeps his tail in the air as long as possible; and as soon as he lets it trail in the water, it may be known that he is fatigued. We were assured that they sometimes hunt him from hole to hole, till he has been found on the shore motionless and apparently dead ; and that after taking him into the canoe and landing him on the opposite shore with a view to profit by his skin, he has got up and run away. FARTHER PARTICULARS OF THE SEAL, OR SEA-OOG. The principal species of this animal are those which the inha- bitants distinguish by the names of Landse/us and Utselcr; and the advantages which they derive from it are too important to be passed over. At Patrickfiord they are accustomed to kill it with the gun; but the animal in consequence becomes timid and difficult to approach ; besides which, they thus frighten the birds, and oblige them to abandon the country. Some of the inhabitants of Ise- fiord have therefore resumed the ancient method of killing the seals with javelins or harpoons. They sell at the following prices: An Utseler costs four Danish marks when it can swim a little and is tolerably fat; but this price is given principally for the skin. The young sea-dogs or seals are sold by weight, principally for their fat; and the price is about five marks for 80lbs., after taking put the intestines. An old Utseler is about two ells and a half in'length. They are savage, and it is dangerous to irri- tate them. With the exception of the lard, the remainder of the body of all the seals has no fixed price ; but the young Land- selurs, after having cast their first hair, and acquired sufficient strength to swim ar,d feed themselves, cost a mark. The skins.

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