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no\y ^yE return on board. 
tain, as he peered anxiously through the increasing gloom. 
“We’d better he getting down to the boat before it’s too 
dark to see our way. If it’s a foggy day to-morrow and 
we can’t continue the survey, we’ll come hack and hunt 
him up by daylight. AllonsV 
And so we returned on board with our wearied limbs 
and disabled boat, and left old Bruin to drag his bat- 
tered hull to some quiet corner, there to stuff’ his wounds 
with leaves and growl through the long and feverish 
night. 
The next day was unfortunately beautifully clear, — “just 
the weather for surveying;” and so we continued our 
work and left our wounded foe to whiten upon the moun- 
tain’s side, or drag through heavy weeks and months of 
slow recovery. 
