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This episode seemed to make the bear very 
angry, for he jumped upon the top of the cage, 
and found that he could just put his head and 
forepaws over the edge of the hatch and onto 
the deck! 
Again there was a wild stampede of Eskimos, 
sailors and dogs; for it looked as if he surely 
would be up on the deck in an instant. In the 
excitement, Michael, the wheelman, left the 
wheel, and for a moment everything was in a 
state bordering on panic. 
At this point one of the sailors did a very 
brave thing. He ran up and struck the bear 
heavily over the head with a deck mop, where- 
upon, after giving a savage growl, the animal 
went back into the hold. It was fortunate that 
for had he overboard in the 
heavy sea that was running, it would have been 
impossible to have stopped and picked him up, 
and we would have been compelled to shoot him. 
he did so, gone 
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BULLETIN. 
Immediately we hoisted the cage out, and 
waited another 24 hours, when it was again 
lowered with a good supply of walrus meat and 
fresh water, as before. This was quite enough 
for “Silver King” (as we had named him) and 
in he went. Without taking time to untie the 
rope that held the trap-door, we cut it; the door 
fell into place, and our bear was in his cage. 
Again the steam winch was brought into play, 
and we soon had both cage and bear hoisted on 
deck. 
As the crowd of Eskimos and sailors collected 
around in front of the cage, the bear made ter- 
rible lunges at them; and every time he lunged 
at the bars it was impossible for the Eskimos 
to stand still. They simply had to break and run. 
Everything went well until we struck warm 
weather, and started washing him off with the 
deck hose every morning. Although he had 
quieted down, this morning ablution business 
did not suit him at all, and then it was that he 
THE BEAR SEEMED TO HAVE AN IDEA OF GETTING INTO THE LAUNCH. 
