covered his ferocity and made the day hideous with his growls. 
In the afternoon he was transferred to a rude cage knocked 
together by the ship’s carpenter. 
“ Poor little beast! This is but a forerunner of what the 
future has in store for him, for he has probably exchanged 
the freedom of his great ice-fields for confinement behind iron 
bars. He seemed more contented, however, when freed from 
the ropes with which he had been tied, and peacefully munched 
his meal of seal blubber. Strange to say, he loves sugar quite 
as much as his cousin of a warmer clime. ‘Tommy’ (for so 
we have named him) had been on board only a short time 
when the captain discovered another trio of bears on the same 
floe.” 
The hunt for these was well-nigh a repetition of the other. 
Next day, wind and weather were fair, and running full 
speed occasionally helped the vessel well on her course, so Aug. 16th 
that by nine at night Cape Hold-with-Hope and the Pendulum 
Islands were again clearly in view. Peaks of both, some of 
them forty-eight miles distant, served to close the sky-line. 
Between ship and land lay ice impenetrable, but all hope of 
reaching the coast was abandoned. 
The short Arctic summer had gone, and we dared not re¬ 
main in the ice any longer. 
East Greenland, we consoled ourselves, is ever difficult of 
access. Prolonged fog, adverse wind, and unfavorable lay of 
the ice had handicapped the ship throughout. Since the acci¬ 
dent, moreover, our bow was not of such sort as to permit the 
continued ramming of ice, and without this no ship could hope 
to reach that coast. 
What time we had left in the Arctic Seas we would turn 
to bear-hunting and to a search for openings in the pack. 
Sunshine, lasting till half past ten at night, helped us well 
in this. 
On the 17th not only the search, but rowing and skeeing 
served as recreation. Three snad were killed, and when no Aug. 17th 
prey was seen, bottles and tin-cans set on the ice, served as 
targets for pastime. 
Sunrise at half past one, these days, was apt to wake folk 
early, and so the companion rule was “early to bed.” 
Sometimes, for amusement pure and simple, iridescent lit¬ 
tle red jelly-fish were caught. Terns and robber gulls, the 
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