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course, made the travelling considerably heavier than it was 

 before, but the sledges ran fairly easily on it all the same. 



When we set off the next morning, at seven o'clock, it was 

 quite dark, and we could hardly see one another. Suddenly we 

 heard Fosheim shouting, ' Here's a bear ! ' I had seen the bear 

 too ; in fact, I had driven close by it, but then it was standing 

 still. ' No,' said Fosheim, ' it was going west.' ' I think it is we 

 who are going east,' I shouted back. Fosheim sat silent for a 

 time, thinking it over, and at last came to my conclusion, which 

 was, that it was a block of ice that he had seen. 



The satisfaction on board was great when we arrived back safely 

 about five o'clock in the evening. Their surprise was no less 

 than their pleasure, when they saw our loads of good beef, for 

 none of us had much expected that big game would be found in 

 the southern part of Ellesmere Land. 



