^'mAEIOX" EXPEDITIOX to DAVIS STRAIT AXD BAFFIN BAY 31 



meat was had for the mess, but much seal and whale meat brought 

 out from the Disko Bay refrion was eaten. 



At 5. 07 p. m. a large polar bear and two young ones were seen 

 eating a seal on a near-by ice cake. The ship worked toward them. 

 They tried to escape by swimming and running, but tAvo of them 

 were killed with rifles before they could get away. The third, a cub, 

 weighing about 200 pounds, remained roaring about in the vicinity of 

 the dead bears. A dory was quickly lowered and the small bear was 

 noosed and towed alongside. The two dead bears were hoisted 

 aboard and then the live one, growling and snarling, was lifted to 

 the deck by numerous lines slipped about the neck, body, and legs. 

 On the ship it was overpoAvered and muzzled b}^ many hands, then 

 dragged forward and thrown into the forehold. After the hatch was 



CLOSE TO A TOWERING irEBER(; 



Figure 25. — The Ma/rion has just landed photographers on the iceberg, and is about to 

 back away. The manned dory by the ice cake is for rescue work in case the berg 

 should break up or turn over. There were numerous icebergs like this one drifting 

 south with the pack ice in the western portion of Davis Strait. Note the one near 

 the horizon between the two masts of the patrol boat. 



dogged down, the bear was a secure captive, though free to rage 

 about among the lines, bags of coal, and paint cans of its large prison. 



At 7 p. m. the Aveather grew foggy again, but it remained calm. 

 Every effort made to push to the soutliAvestAvard Avas thwarted by 

 the ice. The ship lurched and shook Avhen it encountered heavy 

 floes, and the corners of the ice cakes cracked and thundered as they 

 scraped aft along the sides. At 8 p. m. the attempt to go soutliAvest- 

 ward Avas abandoned and the ship AA^as headed southeast in hope of 

 finding more open Avater. After bucking the ice for some 5 miles aa'o 

 became Avedged betAA^een floes, from Avhich position no amount of back- 

 ing and filling could dislodge us. At 10.30 p. m. the engines Avere 

 stopped and the ship remained drifting quietly soutliAvard in the 

 grip of the ice until the next morning. 



DaAAm presented a beautiful Arctic scene. We could as well have 

 been at the Pole itself, except for the distant mountains of Baffin 



