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and well equipped with gun, cartridges, knife, and file 

 (to sharpen the seal-knife), I followed. I had my wind 

 trousers on, too ; they had been hanging unused all 

 through the winter's cold, for want of thread to mend 

 them with, but now, when the temperature was only — 2°C. 

 (284° Fahr.), they of course had to come out. I followed 

 the tracks ; they went westward and northward along 



"JOHANSEN FIRED THROUGH THE OPENING 



the shore. After a little while 1 at last met Johansen,. 

 who said that the bear lay farther on ; he had at last got 

 up to it, and finished it with a shot in the back. While 

 he returned to fetch the sledcrcs I went on to beofin 

 skinning. It was not to be done quite so quickly, how- 



