. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. bear and fox not only find, but capture it. When the dog has led his mas-ter to the secret seal lodge beneath the snow, the man retreats from fifteen to twen-ty paces, and then runs forward swiftly, leaping high and far on concluding his he comes down he crushes in the dome, and quickly thrusts his seal hook this wayand that around in the igloo, till he has the young seal quivering in the agonies ofdeath. * The water, ice, and snow of the second engraving arc represented in like man-ner as in the preceding one. The appearance of the s
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. bear and fox not only find, but capture it. When the dog has led his mas-ter to the secret seal lodge beneath the snow, the man retreats from fifteen to twen-ty paces, and then runs forward swiftly, leaping high and far on concluding his he comes down he crushes in the dome, and quickly thrusts his seal hook this wayand that around in the igloo, till he has the young seal quivering in the agonies ofdeath. * The water, ice, and snow of the second engraving arc represented in like man-ner as in the preceding one. The appearance of the seal hole, and the bed of snowabove, as they are during the winter season till about the 1st of April, is well repre-sented. The sealer is awaiting the seals blow. It is time he was up and ready tostrike, for as soon as a seal has its nose out of the water, as the one here represent-ed, its pulling noise is heard. When the scaler, by the aid of hifl dog, lias found theseal hole, he has sometimes to watch there two or three days and nights. The dog. , **AL vitw or m,,u. uvll. 5S0 ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. 4he seal, talking to it, as the Innuits say, till he is within strik-ing distance, then he pounces upon it with a single jump. Thenatives say that if they could talk as well as the bear, theycould catch many more seals. The procedure of the bear is as follows: He proceeds very cau-tiously toward the black speck far off on the ice, which he knowsto be a seal. When still a long way from it, he throws himselfdown on his side, and hitches himself along toward his seal meanwhile is taking its naps of about ten seconds each,ultimately raising its head and surveying the entire horizon be-fore composing itself again to brief slumber. As soon as it raisesits head the bear talks, keeping perfectly still. The seal, if itsees any thing, sees but the head, which it takes for that of an-other seal. It sleeps again. Again the bear hitches himself along,and once more the seal
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