The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-11

deer. I jumped on to Johan's sledge, and We soon caught sight of his rein- deer, which, hotly pursued by two loose dogs, spent its last strength in a des- perate flight for safety. Then one of the dogs managed to get hold or the animals hind legs, upset him, and rush at its throat. We thought the deer was already dead when we reached it. and were just going to stop our team, when it got up with a rush; with violent shake it rid itself of the dog, and con tinued it's flight. But the dogs kept 1t at bay until We came up, and sent a bullet through its grain. ... .......s..
 In the meantime the Copenhagener and Pavia also hot mold of their woun- ded deer by the aid of one of the dogs, and we soon all met with our three tro- phies-a hind and two young deer Lars and I, however, were not quite satisfied with the result. We borrowed Pavia's best reindeer dog, a beautiful little white fellow, harnessed him to our team, and set out in westerly di- reetion in the hope of being able to overtake the four deer which had es- capped. On We drove for long, long time when all at once we saw the four animals, and our team, egged on by Pa via's dog, made for them; but the rein deer were now shy, and we pursued them for couple of hours without get ting a chance of a decent shot. They only stood still for a few seconds at a time, and fled as soon as we ap- preached.
 At last we succeeded in separating one of the deer, the biggest and finest Iof them, from it's companions; it be- came confused. stopped. and at the | same moment was hit i'll one of the forelegs. Unfortunately, it did not keep l to the valley. where we could have driven in pursuit of it, but went up the mountain side. Our sledge was soon stopped by heap of stones at the foot of the mountain, and with some trouble we managed to bind our team, only let ting loose the little white reindeer dog, which at once went up the mountain. in pursuit of our wounded prey. An exci- ting half hour followed; the deer had a good start and the dog, which was eyi- dently tired, only slowly gained upon the fugitive. The reindeer retreated by l the most peculiar curves, and at lasl ] both it and the dog vanished from sight
 We then made up our minds to follow ill
 their track up the mountain side; and over stones, through deep snow, across
 ice blocks as smooth as glass, along the edge of steep precipices, we went along ! H. md 1ti
 towards the region of eternal ice, the
 bluish crust of which domed above the
 mountain peake. But it grew dark without our having seen them, and af. lter a fatiguing and futile tramp, we \ were obliged to return to the sledge ldisheartened at having lost, such g Isplendid deer, and at our having. per. lhaps, also lost the little white dog IWilen we again reached our sledge ant saw how terribly twisted the traces Q I the dogs had become, we could see tha f there must have been reindeer there 1T Jour absence; and, on q closer inspe fiction, we found marks both of the dee land the dog about fifty feet from tn,
 sledge. The little white dog had clever l.ly managed to drive the deer iii the di l,rection of the sledge, where 1t though its masters would be, thus giving then
 a splendid chance. Now 1t was to- Hate, It grew rapidly darker, and tn I,track of the deer and the dog was sool Host on the plain among the confused l chaos of tracks from the earlier part Q the day. We were obliged to make fo I the tent. It was slow work, the dog
 being terribly tired. The front had in .l creased, and the wind was keen an T biting. Warm as we had been from ou
 chase, we soon began to slliver on tn
 sfetige, and had frequently to alight an 1 run a short distance, holding on to tn I sledge, to get warm again. Tim
 seemed to drag. When we came to tn
 place where the first deer had bee \ killed, we had the satisfaction of com
 ing across the little white dog; it wa
 asleep, and looked responsibility at Il
 when we awakened it. The clever littl
 hound was so exhausted that it was lle able to pull, and it was almost dragge
 along by the other dogs in the team \ r c,, l,,, esta lar rd fsnrraS Ynr1 a,, pa