410 THE GEJRMAN ARCTIC EXPEDITIOX. 



in this way for about 300 paces, almost strangled by my 

 shawl, which the bear had seized at the same time, he 

 dropped me, and immediately afterwards Koldewey was 

 bending over me with the words, ' Thank God ! he is 

 still alive ! ' The bear stood a few paces on one side, 

 evidently undecided what course to pursue, until a bullet 

 gave him a hint that it was high time to take himself off. 

 *' No one thought of jjursuing him, for their first care was 

 to carry the wounded man on board, whither the doctor 

 and Herr Tramnitz had gone in order to prepare the 

 requisites for binding up the wounds. The main injuries 

 were in the head, where, amongst numerous other wounds 

 from the bites, two especially from four to six inches long- 

 ran along the scalp, the edges of which hung loose, leaving 

 the skull bare for one-third to two-fifths of an inch. The 

 other wounds, about twenty in number, were in part 

 caused by striking against the fragments and rough 

 broken edges of the ice. It is worth while mentioning 

 that, neither during the act of receiving the wounds nor 

 during the process of healing, which progressed favour- 

 ably, did I experience the smallest pain."* The next day, 

 upon the ice, at some distance from the scene of the 

 accident, the chronometer^ and the gun were found, 



* Similarly Livingstoue, who, on being torn by a lion, tells us " There 

 was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror. It was like what jfatieuts 

 partly under the influence of chloroform describe, who see all the opera- 

 tion, but feel not the knife." — Missionary Travels, S. Afr., p. 12. 



^ After Dr Borgcn had been for some time under Dr. ransch's hands, 

 he remembered that he had the })Ocket-chronometcr (one of Felsing's, of 

 Bremen) with him ; so, as it had not come on board, Dr. Copeland and 

 a guard went in search of it, and found it fast frozen to the surface of the 

 ice. It had gone on for some time after its fall, but had stop[)cd at last, 

 owing to the intensity of the cold. After warming it in the hand, it 

 went on a^ain for some seconds. 



