. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. UNLOADING STORES. All the time the bear came nearer and nearer, his great claws glisteningas he lifted them out of the snow. Two! The bear snarled, sat up on his haunches, threw his headback and showed a glistening row of teeth, precisely as though he weresaying, Come on, now. See if you can hurt me. GREENLANDS SELF. 93 Three! Both rifles banged. The bear did not move except toclose his eyes, shut his jaws with a resounding click, and draw his lipsstill farther back. Load again ! whispered Scott. Did we miss him ? Roy mutte
. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. UNLOADING STORES. All the time the bear came nearer and nearer, his great claws glisteningas he lifted them out of the snow. Two! The bear snarled, sat up on his haunches, threw his headback and showed a glistening row of teeth, precisely as though he weresaying, Come on, now. See if you can hurt me. GREENLANDS SELF. 93 Three! Both rifles banged. The bear did not move except toclose his eyes, shut his jaws with a resounding click, and draw his lipsstill farther back. Load again ! whispered Scott. Did we miss him ? Roy muttered. Not to-day ! Scott cried, as the bear began to sink slowly, andfinally rolled over, dead, upon the snow. He was given the place of honor on the sledge, while the boys walkedand waded back to the settlement. He measured nearly nine feet, and. LANDING THE STORES. weighed six hundred and eighty pounds as his body lay, the next day,stretched in triumph on the deck of the Snowbird. During their absence the supply steamer from Denmark had come in,wedged her way into the outer ice, was made fast there with ice anchors,and such stores as were to be left at the post had been unloaded upon theice. When the party returned the queer, sturdy, dumpy little Danishsailors were working the stores up to shore, with sledges and boats. The captain had stopped at all of the ports of Greenland to thesouth, and the trader offered to find out if he knew anything of the Louise. 94 GREENLANDS SELF. They were all sitting about the moss and oil fire in the office, waitingfor the men to finish bringing up the stores, when they would begin thework of cutting the steamer out again. Yes; he had seen the Louise, about three weeks before, and had
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