Field note book[s], Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1915
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seal holes and following bear tracks. We could see where a bear had dragged a seal along the ice first- for a long ways. We were rapidly following this when about 125 yds from the ice on a cliff side we saw what we all thought was a bear but as we jumped from our sledges with rifles we concluded it was a large white wolf. Bear - wait to popped him running at 100 yds with my Savage Eight power. the bullet going complete through this body, entering one of the third quarters and coming out at fore shoulder. Our caching Edwin at this igloo I later pack.. at 7 o clock - we stopped thinking we would come to feed Edmonson again. As he looked around for a suitable place, Bear - wait to exclaimed something in Eskimos and