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caught, escaped again, was brought back swimming, and 

 lastly chained to the ice-anchor. It was very frightened, 

 but eagerly devoured its mother's flesh which we threw 

 to it. We built it a snow-house, and offered it a couch of 

 shavings, which, however, the young bear, as a genuine 

 inhabitant of the Arctic seas, despised, and preferred 

 camping in the snow. Some days later, it had dis- 



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appeared, together with the chain, which must have 

 become loosened from the anchor. From the weioflit of 

 the iron alone the poor creature must soon have sunk. 

 Other Arctic guests visited the Hansa. With a brisk 

 wind came two white foxes from the coast close to the 

 ship, a certain proof that the ice, either in fields or 



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