"74 A. L. V. Manniche. 



keeping watch for a long time at the seal's breathing hole. — The 

 observation took place in the night, but the radiant midnight sun 

 and a good telescope nevertheless permitted me to watch the doings 

 of the animals closely. 



Later on the same three bears were constantly seen on Storm- 

 bugt and Dove Bugt in pursuit of seals, till at last they were all 

 shot July 6*ь. One of the cubs — a male — was then nearly of 

 the same size as the mother, the other (a female) was somewhat 

 smaller. 



13/7 07. A she-bear with one small cub was seen on the ice east 

 of Кар Bismarck. 



'•/8 07. When I went on shore at Hvalrosodden in the company 

 of some comrades, we here saw a large male bear which was de- 

 vouring a walrus carcass lying on the headland. The bear was so 

 occupied with his meal that he hardly heeded our arrival, and it 

 was therefore an easy matter for us to shoot him down. It was 

 evident that the bear had been staying for a long time near the 

 carcass which he had hollowed out to such an extent that he was 

 standing partly hidden by the remaining, putrid walrus skin while 

 devouring the internal parts. The bear had made a deep lair in 

 the sand in the neighbourhood of his pantry. From this couch he 

 has probably kept watch over the carcass. At our arrival the bear 

 was surrounded by great numbers of sea-gulls (Lams glaucus), ravens 

 and some foxes. Some traces of wolves were also leading to and 

 from the place. 



This bear was extremely fat, and his fur had a strongly yellow- 

 ish tinge. The hairs on head and neck had rotted off partly through 

 the animal's constant raking up in the big carcass. (I have noticed 

 similar cases with arctic foxes and wolves which have visited some 

 large carcass for a length of time.) 



"/lo 07. Johansen shot a younger she-bear at Renskæret. The 

 bear was very fat. The stomach contained some small stones and 

 a few rests of vegetable matter. 



Ring came home from a sledge drive to the north. He carried 

 with him a male bear, shot 12 kilometer north of Кар Amélie. 



'^''Iio 07. Great numbers of bear traces have been found the last 

 days between Кар Bismarck and Renskæret; among others I saw 

 the traces of a female with two cubs and of another female, accom- 

 panied by one cub. 



22/io 07. Bistrup states to have seen a bear on Edvards 0. 

 The bear fled, leaving behind it a killed seal which it had dragged 

 from the ice up on a 20 meter high brink. (An arctic fox was 

 strolling about in the neighbourhood.) Several seals were seen lying 



