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To get it aboard the same procedure was 

 adopted as before : a slip-knot around the 

 neck, and a second one around the hind legs. 

 The cage in which the first cub, Martin, was 

 confined was partitioned into two. After some 

 trouble, during which Bergendhal was rather 

 badly torn, we succeeded in securing our prisoner. 

 The noise the two cubs made in concert was 

 ear-splitting. Milk calmed them. The beaters 

 returned aboard soaked with perspiration and 

 the water through which they had splashed. 



Of these two bear cubs, one, Martin, lived 

 with me at Norton. It grew to a great size, 

 but always remained savage and dangerous. 

 The other, called Joe to commemorate the 

 part the doctor had played in its capture, I 

 gave to the Paris Museum, where I recently 

 iearnt it is to be seen still in good condition. 



The bear cub I captured on August 12, 

 1909, on the Franz Joseph ice-pack, behaved 

 differently from the others. Instead of run- 

 ning, it turned upon the hunters when they 

 approached the body of the mother. 



We saw, away to the starboard, a bear, 

 followed by its cub, quietly ambling along 

 over the surface of a small floe surrounded by 

 free water. The two animals appeared to be 

 neither afraid nor troubled by our presence, and 



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