. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. game having beenspotted by the lookout in the crows nest. Return-ing to the hummocks, we saw the bear strollingfrom behind the berg beyond. He was comingstraight towards us, so we got down behind therafted ice and awaited his approach. It was de-cided that I should have the first shot as the matehad killed so many. I allowed the bear to getabout a hundred and fifty yards away beforefiring, and then put a bullet into him. I dontknow where it hit, but he came down, to be upagain at once and to keep on coming. The matefired and down he went again, an
. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. game having beenspotted by the lookout in the crows nest. Return-ing to the hummocks, we saw the bear strollingfrom behind the berg beyond. He was comingstraight towards us, so we got down behind therafted ice and awaited his approach. It was de-cided that I should have the first shot as the matehad killed so many. I allowed the bear to getabout a hundred and fifty yards away beforefiring, and then put a bullet into him. I dontknow where it hit, but he came down, to be upagain at once and to keep on coming. The matefired and down he went again, and we kept it upuntil the bear was hit many times. Sometimeshe fell, sometimes he bit at the place, and by thetime he reached the ridge he was very lame andbadly shot up. He had gone some distance to thewest of us, so I stood up on a slab of ice and fin-ished him, as we thought, by putting a bullet inhis shoulder and dropping him in his tracks. Wehurried up our side of the ridge until we arrivedat where he was. Then, climbing over, I was sur-. Copyright by \alentine, Dundee. Polar Bear IN THE WHALER AURORA 117 prised to find hiin sitting up. This time my bulletfinished him. Our shooting was nothing to beproud of, and went to show how careful one shouldbe with bears, because if not hit right, they takea lot of lead. This was about the only one of thosekilled that took more than one or, at the most, twoshots. As neither of us had a hunting knife, wehad a long job skinning him with pocket we started for the ship, towing the skin, butwhen we reached the crack in the ice, it hadopened about twenty-five yards, so we were fairlycaught. The mate, with his usual ingenuity,loosened a pan of ice, and on this we crossed, usingthe butts of our rifles as paddles. Arriving at theother side, we were met by two sailors, sent fromthe ship, as we were being watched from the bar-rel, and they took the bear skin in charge whilewe made our way on board. As it was late, we re-tired as soon
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