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This episode seemed to make the bear very 

 angry, for lie jumped upon the top of the cage, 

 and found that lie could just put his head and 

 forepaws over the edge of the hatch and onto 

 the deck ! 



Again there was a wild stampede of Eskimos, 

 sailors and dogs ; for it looked as if he surely 

 would be up on the deck in an instant. In the 

 excitement, Michael, the wheelman, left the 

 wheel, and for a moment everything was in a 

 state bordering on panic. 



At this point one of the sailors did a very 

 brave thing. He ran up and struck the bear 

 heavily over the head with a deck mop, where- 

 upon, after giving a savage growl, the animal 

 went back into the hold. It was fortunate that 

 he did so, for had he gone overboard in the 

 heavy sea that was running, it would have been 

 inii)ossible to have stopped and picked him up, 

 and we would have been compelled to shoot him. 



Immediately we hoisted the cage out, and 

 waited another '21 hours, when it was again 

 lowered with a good supply of walrus meat and 

 fresh water, as before. This was quite enough 

 for "Silver King" (as we had named him) and 

 in he went. Without taking time to untie the 

 rojie that held the trap-door, we cut it; the door 

 fell into place, and our bear was in his cage. 

 Again the steam winch was brought into play, 

 and we soon had both cage and bear hoisted on 

 deck. 



As the crowd of Eskimos and sailors collected 

 around in front of the cage, the bear made ter- 

 rible lunges at them ; and every time he lunged 

 at the bars it was impossible for the Eskimos 

 to stand still. They simply had to break and run. 



Everything went well until we struck warm 

 weather, and started washing him off with the 

 deck hose every morning. Although he had 

 quieted down, this morning ablution business 

 did not suit him at all, and then it was that he 



THE BEAR SEEMED TO HAVE AN IDEA OF GETTING INTO THE LAUNCH. 



