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two traffic streams in a crowded street; then all at once, in a few
minutes, all ice will be out of sight And the tides do it all.
As we were eating lunch under a tent on the whale boat,
it was raining and foggy. The husky, who had been walking ashore,
Called quietly to us "Nanook". All of us went ashore across the
neck, and there he was, about three quarters of a mile away in the
fog, wandering about among the packed ice cakes, and looking like a
phantom bear, so dim was his outline--just a shade grayer than the
ice and fog. Rufus and I started out after him, armed with .38 re-
volvers and seal gaffs, the husky having given us to understand
that he would wait on shore. We went almost a mile across the mov-
ing ice field, jumping from one pan to another. He saw us about 50
yards away and dove in. Then we ran up close to him and shot several
times, He made one attempt to get up right at us about 10 or 20 feet
away, but we knocked him back in, and another shot finished him.
Slipping a belt under and thru his lower jaw, we started him to the
other island, about a quarter of a mile off, one of us pushing the
pans apart, the other pulling his fallen majesty thru the space thus
made. We reached land just as the last ice was leaving, but quickly
putting him in front of us, we made the rocks by using the floating
bear as a stepping stone.
After a couple of hours, G.P. and Kavaou paddled over
out of the fog and soon we had the whale boat over and camped there.
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