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least, that I was breaking no law of any nation, em- 

 pire, kingdom, or principality, for Canada had clothed 

 me with authority. 



We spent a most delightful three hours with Cap- 

 tain Bernier, and I was glad indeed of the oppor- 

 tunity to meet him. Then we returned to the Jeanie, 

 breakfasted, hoisted anchor, and headed for another 

 Eskimo settlement which lay across the bay. We 

 found that the place had already been vacated, and 

 our prow was at once turned southward again, to- 

 ward Cape Raper, at the northern entrance to Isa- 

 bella Bay, where our pilot advised us we should surely 

 find people living. 



Early in the day I told Kidlobber that I would 

 give him plenty of tobacco for every bear he sighted. 

 Within an hour he rushed into the cabin to announce 

 a bear ashore. What he claimed to be a bear, ap- 

 peared through my glasses to be a patch of dirty 

 yellowish snow on a high point of rocks; but Kid- 

 lobber insisted it was a bear, and we hauled in close 

 to shore. As we neared the point I discovered that 

 the Eskimo was right. A large bear was curled 

 asleep upon the high rocks. 



A small boat was lowered at once but heavy swells 

 rolling in gave us some trouble in locating a suitable 

 landing-place. When this was found Fuller went 

 ashore first, the Eskimo threw him some lines, to 

 which a dog was made fast, he hauled the dog safely 

 to land, and then I followed. 



The hill was steep and the climb hard. Near the 

 top the dog was loosed, and in a few moments was on 



