140 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY 
Another reindeer was seen this afternoon, which 
we immediately went after, and owing to the 
weather being thick at the time, we managed to 
surround him, and by that means got so near him, 
that he was at length shot. He was perfectly 
white, except one brown patch on the top of his 
rump; the carcase weighed, when skinned and 
cleaned, 147 pounds. 
Friday, October 1st.— Another deer was killed on 
this date. A beautiful white bear was also seen to- 
day, but we were unsuccessful in our attack upon 
him, notwithstanding he approached so near to the 
ships, that we fired at him from them. Several 
shot struck him, however, in different parts of the 
body, as we could plainly perceive from the 
streams of blood that gushed from the wounds ; 
but before we could re-load, he was out of gun- 
shot range from the ships. A large party of the 
officers and men immediately pursued him*, in 
expectation from the quantity of blood that issued 
from his wounds, that he would soon fall, or at 
least become so much exhausted that they would 
shortly come up with him; in both these expect- 
ations, however, they found themselves disap- 
pointed, for the cold, in a short time, stopped the 
effusion of blood, and as none of the shots 
happened to be in a mortal part, he suc- 
ceeded in keeping out of their reach. They 
supposed, however, that they would have ulti- 
* All our dogs went after him also, but none of them would 
zo very near him; and if they had, I have no doubt but he would 
soon make them suffer for their temerity. 
