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have a pure well ventilated room quite warm
enough for health at -40° and capable
of an increase of heat without using
other wood than "kindling." We only
wait a greater height of sunshine to
open down upon us the long excluded
light of day.

Mr. Ohlsen had another spell,
the rest of patients better or the same.
We had no meat today.
[end omit]

At last we get the long wished for deer.
Hans, dear good fellow, got
within long shot of our deer and put
a ball through his body about amidships.
The animal went off at a slow
run. This deer has hung around
the water lake of the Fiord ever since
it became light enough to hunt. He
is of large size and called by the Esquimaux
[Benesoak?] from being without antlers.
Some of the strongest and best of the deer
shed their antlers in the fall and
roam throughout the winter without
them, the great majority retain their
antlers until early spring. The work
of dropping them however generally commences with the
return of Sun. Where many thousands
of reindeer are gathered together year
after year the accumulation of discarded
antlers must be immense.
Deer hang around certain favoured
localities and thus promote such accumulations.
At [?] where
more than 4000 skins are taken annually
to market, they tell me that
these "horns" are found in vast piles.
They bring little or nothing
in Copenhagen; but I suppose would find
a ready sale among the button workers
of England.

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have a pure well ventilated room quite warm
enough for health at -40° and capable
of an increase of heat without using
other wood than "kindling." We only
wait a greater [height?] of sunshine to
open down upon us the long excluded
light of day.

Mr. Ohlsen had another spell,
the rest of patients better [or?] the same.
We had no meat today.
[end omit]

At last we get the long wished for [?].
Hans, dear good fellow, got
within long shot of our deer and put
a ball through his body about amidships.
The animal went off at a [?]
run. This deer has hung around
the water lake of the Fiord ever since
it became light enough to hunt. He
is of large size and called by the Esquimaux
[Benesoak?] from being without antlers.
Some of the strongest and best of the deer
shed their antlers in the fall and
roam throughout the winter without
them, the great majority retain their
antlers until early spring. The work
of dropping them however generally commences with the
return of sun. Where many thousands
of reindeer are gathered together year
after year the accumulation of discarded
antlers must be immense.
Deer hang around certan favored
localities and thus promote such accumulations.
At [?] where
more than 4000 skins are taken annually
to market, they tell me that
these "horns" are found in vast [?].
They bring little or nothing
in Copenhagen; but I suppose would [find?]
a ready sale among the button workers
of England.