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evidently very much enraged ; and when I came under 

 the hummock where it stood it showed its teeth and 

 hissed at me, and repeatedly gave signs of wanting to 

 jump down on to the top of me. On these occasions 

 1 rapidly got ready my rifle instead of the camera. It 

 scraped away the loose snow from under its feet to get 

 a better footing for the leap which, however, it never 

 took ; and I re-exchanged my rifle for my camera. In 

 the meantime, Jackson had arrived with his camera on 

 the other side ; and when we had taken all the photo- 

 graphs we wanted we shot the bear. It was an un- 

 usually large she-bear," 



One of the first things we did when we came to 

 Mr. Jackson's station was of course to make a close 

 comparison of our watches with his chronometer ; and 

 Mr. Armitacre was also kind enough to take careful time- 

 observations for me. It now appears that we had not 

 been so far out, after all. We had put our watches 

 about 26 minutes wron<'", makino- a difference of 

 about 6.7'' in longitude. A protracted comparison 

 undertaken by Mr. Armitage also showed that the 

 escapement of our watches was very nearly what we 

 had assumed. With the help of this information I was 

 now enabled to work out our longitude observations 

 pretty correctly ; and one of the first tasks I here set 

 about, now that we once more had access to paper, 

 writino- and drawing materials, and all that we had longed 

 for so much during the winter, was to prepare a 



