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one dog, and he was exhausted. I made him drink a 

 half tumbler of whiskey the first thing, and then ques- 

 tioned him ; but he was so excited, or tired, or fright- 

 ened that he immediately commenced to cry, and I 

 packed him off to bed. 



"When he became calm, his story agreed with the 

 steward's, and supplied the following additional details: 

 He found a seal, which the bear had been eating, mi- 

 nus its head and shoulders. The bear and dogs would 

 fight every now and then, and the dogs were bleeding. 

 Thinks he went fifteen (?) miles away in chase before 

 he gave it up. Prince and Wolf were still following 

 the bear when he saw them last. Cook tried to drag 

 the seal in, but was too fatigued, and had to give it up. 

 Knew he should not have gone out of sight of the ship, 

 but felt he ought to get the dogs back. 



So, as the case stands at midnight, two of our best 

 dogs — in fact, our two best dogs — are missing. Wolf 

 is barely discharged from the sick-list before he is again 

 on the war path. A very curious feature of the whole 

 business is that no one took these two dogs away with 

 him, and our assumption is that Prince and Wolf must 

 have seen or scented a bear, and have started off on 

 the hunt on their own account. Fortunately Tom, the 

 third of the gang, is not out of the hospital yet, and 

 seldom is let out of the deck-house, and never unac- 

 companied, or we might now be lamenting the loss of 

 three dogs instead of two. 



April 20th, Wednesday. — Immediately after dinner, 

 Ericksen, Wilson, and Dressier, accompanied by dogs 

 Smike, Snooze r, and Kasmatka, started off on a search 

 for our missing dogs, but came back about 8.30 with no 

 success. They found the tracks and followed them 

 about ten miles, and, singular to say, the bear seemed 



