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pieces kept together, in the expectation that 

 the number of seals frequenting it while it was 

 fixed would not forsake it. During the day 

 Kennedy shot a fine bull- walrus and two large 

 seals upon some of the fragments. I lost 

 nearly the whole day following another bear 

 with one cub, which we marked into the cluster 

 of rocky islands on the east side of the bay, 

 but without success. Although I placed a 

 man armed with a lance as a marker on the 

 fast-ice adhering to the north side of the islands, 

 and caused the boat to row along the open 

 side, while I beat the islands, like a pointer, 

 myself, still we could not discover them, and 

 I got on board the sloop near Black Point at 

 midnight, rather knocked up, and disgusted at 

 my want of success ; for, as we had hitherto 

 bagged every bear we had seen, we had begun 

 to look upon seeing one as pretty nearly tanta 

 mount to killing him. I only brought in one 

 seal ; but might have shot four or five, which 

 I did not fire at for fear of disturbing the 

 bears. 



Sunday, the 24^, was a fine day, but dead 

 calm, and we are still drifting about close to 

 Black Point. Some ice appears to be coming 

 down from the north-east at last, so that 



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