Left on Labrador

ts Owner Head down.-Ice-Patches.-Anchoring to an Ice-floe.-A Bear-hunt in

ext morning "The Cu

indicated on our chart, compelled us to

little on the bar. The farther north we got, the stronger was the tendency of the north pole, or end of the needle, to point downward, and the south pole to rise up correspondingly. By runnin

r this dipping of the

el the corresponding poles of a magnetic needle, just as another large needle would. The nearer we get up to the north magnetic pole of the ea

° 2

70° north latitude, farther west, in the upper part of Hudson Bay. At that place he repo

in a graduated scale do

y forgotten

t up," s

ent af

ter vibrating a few seconds, ca

ss reached, it would point directly

d," said Raed. "There's

the south pole

o be in 75°, south latitude, south of New Holland, in the Southern

s found in 70° is not the bona fide no

. "The genuine north pole

magnetic attraction is

e the same thing as electr

fluid or a force is not so clear. Tyndall

which the earth receives from the sun," remarked Raed. "We know that heat can be changed into electricity, and, consequently, int

marked Kit; "that strange fluid which runs through the earth as water does through a sponge, making currents, the direction of which are indicated by these magnetic p

h you exactl

ws: they've made a regular hobby of this

rador. At this distance it rises prominently from the sea. The glass shows it to be bare, and destitute of vegetation. By two o'clock, P.M., we had passed the scattered islets, and bore up toward the north main again to avoid the floating i

d the captain, who was st

ok at this, sur," r

forward with the captain. A long, leather-colored fish, as w

old man. "I see 'twan't a moment after.

, Trull's supposition had the benefit of outside resemblance. The captain seized one of the p

sket!" sh

he gun-rack. Only three were loaded.

there!" cr

y; but, getting a glimpse of it

xclaimed Wade.

there was no a

mber two

aim, and banged away.

hree," la

a charmed life, or else it's

he same contrivance with which old Trull had drawn in the boat some days before; and, on getting back within twenty yards, he threw it off. It struck i

e any life in

y looked as much like a sea-serpent as any thing yet. A strong line, with another grapple, was then let

he captain. "One of

feet. Something rose wit

exclaimed Raed

ux in it, hanging h

little hoop around the hole in the deck in which the man had sat. His arms hung down limp and dripp

xclaimed Corliss. "To go to sea with his feet fast in such a little skite of a cr

"We might sink it with three or fou

-pound shots to bury the heathen: it's as much

said Raed. "It's a

ly got seventeen balls left, and no

rgument was

ordered th

ently, but couldn't tear out the

e and all, then!"

ak fell back into the sea

taken in, the bumps had grown so frequent and heavy. On the port side lay a large ice-floe

eard the captain say; and, a moment later, th

s were then thrown over on to the floe. To each of them was bent one of our two-and-a-half-inch hawsers. The anchors themselves were, as will probably be remembered, simply large, strong grapnels. Dragging them along to the holes, they were hooked into the ice, and the hawsers drawn in tight from deck. Planks, secured to the rail by lines, were th

eld completely round. Occasionally a cake of ice would bump up against us. We could hear them grinding together all about; ye

emarked th

ws!" exclaimed Donovan, catching up a

to kill them with a pole

seals can't move very fast: nothing but their flippers to help themselves with. The men run along the edges of the ice, and get

ody business, I shou

-pen, quite," rejoined the captain. "But

og, and, jumping for the rail, drew his le

cried out. "What ar

d Donovan, panting. "Met-a

ar!" excl

e to face with a mighty great chap, on the same business with myself, I suppose. T

ve him!" ex

loe to prevent his taking to the water," advised the captain

g let down, Kit and I r

wo," said Kit. "They'll be handy if we

ready to go out on the ice. Weymouth and Hobbs

to the right, round the edge of the floe on that side. You keep off on the left to see that he

been stationed at the rail to shoot the bear

ce-patches, and keeping about twenty yards from the floe. We

all his fright," said Weymouth when

d, a few minutes later, Guard barked, and we he

moment after, "Gone over towar

ess, the first notice we got of his arrival in our vici

shouted Kit, "or w

a moment after, we saw the bear climbing out o

shot, Wash!"

h a dreadfully savage growl. Of course it was a bad shot; but some allowance must be made for the rocking of the boat. As he turned to us,

on to the boat before we could back off

ash," Kit said. "I'll wait t

an to bark again, and came jumping from cake to cake out wi

hen some one of the party on

, leaped for a little cake between him and the boat. The be

ck! from

g's black head. Something bumped the bottom of the boat simultaneously. The bear had come up under us, and floated out on the port side, a great mass of dripping, struggling white hair. Everybody was shouting now. Wade fired. Bits of blazing cartridge-paper flew into our faces. Kit and I thrust wildly with our bayonets; but the poor beast had already ceased all offensive warfare. He was dead enough. But who had ki

n to twelve miles. For sounding we had a twenty-four-pound iron weight, with a staple leaded into it for the line. Dropping it out of the stern, we ran out a hundred and seventy-three fathoms