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Title: Ice-bound on Kolguev : a chapter in the exploration of Arctic Europe to which is added a record of the natural history of the island
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Trevor-Battye, Aubyn Bernard Rochfort
Subjects: Natural history -- Arctic regions Kolgujef (Russia) Polar regions
Publisher: Westminster : A. Constable
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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en to flirt his tail, and answer with all thepower of his lungs his rival on a little hillock not twentyyards away. June i^tk.—I was writing in the tent this morning at1.30 when Hyland, who had been walking along theshore, came in with a very interesting piece of news. Some creature, a seal he thought, was hunting ducksamong*; the floes. In a moment I was round the corner of the cliff andat the waters edge. It was true enough. A group of long-tailed ducks were just settling on alittle bit of open water close in front of us. As theylit they drew up together in a bunch. Before long therewas a panic among them, and they rose wildly in differentdirections. Right in their midst—or what had beentheir midst—appeared the dark head of a seal. Risenfrom below, had he been trying to take a duck, or hadhe not ? The point was soon settled. The clucks flew round and lit again in the next pool.The seal raised his head a moment higher from thewater, and then sinking, disappeared. We watched the
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PREPARING TO START 85 ducks. Once more they rose confusedly, and once morethe black head showed. Again the ducks settled down on the water, just onthe other side of a small flattish floe. We moved along-till we were opposite this, and once more watched.And now close to the edge of the floe a seals headtwice appeared. The creature raised itself high abovethe water and looked about, reminding one exactlyof a weasel sniffing the air for a mouse when thehunt is momentarily checked. Again the head dis-appeared. Half a minute more and up rose the ducks for thethird time. They rose all but one. There was a flap-ping of wings on the surface for a moment, and then aduck went below. It seemed as though the bird hadbeen caught by the feet. I never saw the creature land with its capture, thoughHyland thought he could make out a seal on the ice. The drama was ended. As we turned to go back Hyland shot a red-throateddiver as it flew to the river from the sea. Sailor re-trieved it—his lips tucked

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