The two men forward would enable the men rowing to be spelled, if we had a long chase.
"I shall never forget my first mix-up with a herd.

We had sighted about ten walruses two miles away, and MacMillan and I, Dennis Murphy, a sailor, and three Eskimos manned a whale-boat, and off we went.

About two hundred yards from the walruses we quit rowing and let Murphy scull us, while Mac and I crouched side by side in the bow, the Eskimos with their harpoons being ready right behind us.
"When we were about twenty yards from the herd, one bull woke up, gave a grunt, poked another, woke him, and then--bang! bang! bang! we opened fire.

Mac had a Winchester automatic rifle, and he got off five shots so fast that before the first one left the muzzle the other four were chasing it.

He dropped a large bull, which gave a convulsive flop and rolled into the water with a splash.