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most probably returned in search of its 

 dam. 



There being now two men besides myself, 

 we succeeded in ca,tching it, and when 

 brought near the skin of the old one, it 

 was quite distressing to witness the concern 

 it evinced. Fii-st hunting for the teats, it 

 endeavoured to suck, then began to fondle 

 the skin about the head, as if trying to 

 awaken it, and when it found all its eifoi-ts 

 to do so unavailing, it coiled itself up on the 

 skin. It did not now seem to take any 

 notice of us, and when one of the men 

 commenced to drag the skin along the snow, 

 it very quietly followed ; and when he had 

 to carry the skin on his back, it kept close 

 at his heels, and was thus taken to our 

 camp. 



Next morning we went out again, in 

 hopes of finding the other cub, nor were 

 we disappointed. It also had returned, and 

 was making the forest resound with its 

 cries. We soon caught it, but there being 

 no skin to follow, it gave us an infinity of 



