Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by American Museum of Natural History Library.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Yesterday I was somewhat
anxious over our meat
supply for the dogs, thinking
perhaps we had farced the
mush-open. Today all looks
bright again.
I went to bed about
midnight expecting the
boys at any minute. They
came down here about
fourteen hours. At 2 this
morning they came in with
thirteen mush-opens. Our
front yard is full up meat.
I decided to rest
the dogs another day and
pile them up as well so
we remained in our sleeping
bags until 10 o'clock.
A few minutes after
breakfast Arlie spotted
two bears right out in front
of our igloo about a mile
away on the ice. In about-
an hour we had them both
see a big male measuring
7 ft 6 in and the other a
small female. Two dogs
were so badly injured
in the fight that one