Part, Chapter
1 I, I | the furs of wolves, grey bears, polar bears, otters, wolverenes,
2 I, I | wolves, grey bears, polar bears, otters, wolverenes, beavers,
3 I, I | hunters. They already saw bears, foxes, and musk oxen, falling
4 I, II | 1,069~ ~ Bears,. . . . . . . . . . . 7,
5 I, IV | skins of foxes, martens, bears, and other Arctic animals,
6 I, VI | otters, wolves, foxes, bears, &c. No artifice was unknown
7 I, VI | be devoured by wolves and bears.~
8 I, VII | I suspect that the white bears we are liable to meet with
9 I, VII | disguise from Mrs Barnett that bears were prowling about the
10 I, XI | however, to be a good many bears about. Marbre and Sabine
11 I, XI | fate they intended for the bears!”~This was true enough.
12 I, XI | no use counting upon the bears to provision their fort.
13 I, XI | not to be disobeyed.~Polar bears and birds were, therefore,
14 I, XI | a whole family of polar bears!”~“But I daresay the men
15 I, XIV | perceived with some alarm that bears were very numerous in the
16 I, XIV | belonged to the family of brown bears, so common throughout the
17 I, XVII| enceinte of the fort.~The bears were still more aggressive.
18 I, XVII| piercing cries; huge white bears roamed about amongst the
19 I, XIX | we won’t grumble at that, bears’ steaks are as good as reindeers’,
20 I, XIX | to the sub-order of white bears, and had the flattened head,
21 I, XIX | teeth and claws of Polar bears; and two children, about
22 I, XIX | well armed in case any bears should be prowling about,
23 I, XX | ice-fields sometimes prowled huge bears, whose movements were watched
24 I, XXI | CHAPTER XXI.~ THE LARGE POLAR BEARS.~The only one of the four
25 I, XXI | observed quietly—~“They are bears!”~In fact half-a-dozen of
26 I, XXI | hearing of the approach of the bears, Hobson at once ordered
27 I, XXI | appeared impossible for the bears to effect an entrance. The
28 I, XXI | After the cold come the bears.”~“Not after,” replied the
29 I, XXI | Lieutenant. “I don’t think the bears will get in; but neither
30 I, XXI | he had to say about the bears. He spoke like a man well
31 I, XXI | day the movements of the bears were attentively watched.
32 I, XXI | without any incident. The bears went and came, prowling
33 I, XXI | return announced that the bears were walking about on the
34 I, XXI | snow.~Marbre was right; the bears were all on the roof, and
35 I, XXI | as he could assume.~“The bears,” he said, “are now upon
36 I, XXI | work was proceeding, the bears continued their efforts
37 I, XXI | change in the situation. The bears did not get in; but a no
38 I, XXI | difficult to open it, or the bears might come down from the
39 I, XXI | through it, made sure that the bears were still on the roof.
40 I, XXI | Rae had been watching the bears and the loft. It was so
41 I, XXI | victims to the cold, or the bears, or both. Let us burn all
42 I, XXI | victims to the cold, or the bears, or both. Let us burn all
43 I, XXI | the wood-shed, when the bears had been roused by the shot,
44 I, XXI | now ready to attack the bears at a word from Hobson. But
45 I, XXI | It was evident that the bears had torn away one of the
46 I, XXI | opinion that if all the bears were in the loft, it would
47 I, XXI | almost impossible for the bears to break through the beams
48 I, XXI | of time. Now some of the bears scratched at the masonry,
49 I, XXI | in a loud voice~“To the bears! to the bears, my friends !”~
50 I, XXI | voice~“To the bears! to the bears, my friends !”~It was the
51 I, XXI | companions saw the terrified bears rushing away into the darkness,
52 I, XXII| their struggle with the bears were slight, and merely
53 I, XXII| not only to drive away the bears, but also to modify the
54 I, XXII| of their old enemies the bears; and it seemed as if they
55 II, I | is a sheet of ice which bears us up, and is carrying us
56 II, II | offing of Cape Bathurst which bears directly to the north-west,
57 II, III | animals to be feared now. The bears seemed to have fled by instinct
58 II, VII | Moreover, the sea which bears us along feels its power,
59 II, VIII| formidable animals, the bears, seemed to have quite deserted
60 II, VIII| the whole race of Arctic bears, he soon gained the shores
61 II, XIV | knew that in the winter bears will crouch patiently near
62 II, XIV | not less patient than the bears, also watch for the appearance
63 II, XIV | them to the surface.~What bears and Esquimaux could do might
64 II, XIV | friendly propensities of Polar bears.~“Let him come, Sergeant,”
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