. The big game of North America. Its habits, habitats, haunts, and characteristics; how, when, and where to hunt it .. . in our front was a large ice-floe. We consulted amoment as to the best way to overcome the difficulty ofgetting to the opposite side, wdien we discovered a fore legof the animal moving cautiously up over the ice. An instantlater, his head appeared, and then he saw us. Droppingsuddenly back, he retreated, without giving us a from experience the tactics that he would pursue,we at once decided to separate, one going south and the. Shipped. other north, around the i
. The big game of North America. Its habits, habitats, haunts, and characteristics; how, when, and where to hunt it .. . in our front was a large ice-floe. We consulted amoment as to the best way to overcome the difficulty ofgetting to the opposite side, wdien we discovered a fore legof the animal moving cautiously up over the ice. An instantlater, his head appeared, and then he saw us. Droppingsuddenly back, he retreated, without giving us a from experience the tactics that he would pursue,we at once decided to separate, one going south and the. Shipped. other north, around the ice-pack. We knew that by thismeans one or the other of us could cut him oft before hecould reach water, which was about three miles away. We pushed forward over the rough ice, occasionallysighting the Bear, which seemed to be making the best timepossible. After we had gone a mile or more in a direct line,we noticed that the Bear had slackened his pace, but wasstill moving toward ice-packs and open water, which, if hereached them, would prevent us from getting him. Wenoticed, however, that we were gaining rapidly on him, and 234 BIG GAME OF NOETII AMEEICA. having the advantage of a promontory of ice which wouldobscure his view of us, we redoubled our s^Deed, when,arriving on smooth ice again, we found ourselves withineasy rifle range of the Bear. Jens, the Eskimo, coming outflrst and being nearest to him, got the first shot, strikingthe animal in the fore j)aw. The wound made no perce];)ti-ble change in the Bears movements, excejot that he occa-sionall
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