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NEW LAND. 



straightway up the hillside! I was so annoyed at this high- 

 handed mano3uvre on their part that they would have paid for it 

 with a good thrashing had I been near them, but as it was I had 

 to content myself with sending my warmest blessings after them 

 as I watched them disappear over the crest of the hill on the other 

 side of the bay. 



There was nothing for it now but to slip another team, the 

 mate's. They attacked the bear in a way, but they were a miserable 

 lot, and had not the pluck to make a dead set at their quarry. 



INNER PART OF GAASKFJORD. 



In the mate's team was a young dog called ' Kari,' and this was 

 about her first bear-hunt. Young and inexperienced as she was, 

 she went straight for the bear, and received such a vigorous blow 

 for her pains that she shot several yards into the air. She looked 

 very small as she dropped on to the ice again, and putting her 

 tail between her legs, slunk off to a hummock, where she sat down 

 and looked on at the rest of the game, without moving from 

 the spot. 



The bear had at first made off obliquely up the fjord ; but as it 

 neared the opposite shore suddenly changed its course and started 



