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sixteenth and a spherical-shaped creature unknown 
to Murray, two or three inches in diameter. Mur¬ 
ray had a laboratory which we built on deck for his 
specimens, and it became a good deal of a museum 
before it finally went down with the ship. 
We got fur clothing enough made by the middle 
of the month for each man to have an outfit and 
I had all the skins we had left collected and put in 
canvas bags. The sailors were busy putting our 
pemmican in 48-pound packages, sewed up in can¬ 
vas which later we used for dog harness; canvas is 
one thing the dogs will not ordinarily chew. 
On the twentieth we saw bear tracks near the 
ship. There had been cracks in the ice and ribbons 
of open water at some distance from the ship and 
the Eskimo had continued their seal hunting with 
considerable success. The dogs, curiously enough, 
though tethered at various points around on the 
ice, were not aware of the bear’s presence. 
Wherever there are seal you will find bear be¬ 
cause the bear hunt the seal and live on them. 
When I was hunting with Paul Rainey and Harry 
Whitney in 1910 in Lancaster Sound, that historic 
entrance to the islands and waters west of Baffin 
Land, I saw a bear creeping along the ice very 
stealthily. So intent was he that he did not know 
I was there and I watched him steal up on a seal 
asleep on the ice. He got nearer and nearer and 
