It should be standing and advancing, one paw extended as if to shake, the head on one side and a bearish smile on the face.

The bear provided us with juicy steaks, and we had a special tablecloth, our best cups and saucers, new spoons, et cetera.
A day or two later we began to get the dogs made fast, in preparation for the first sledge parties.

There was now sufficient snow to begin the transportation of supplies toward Cape Columbia, and Black Cliffs Bay was frozen over.

The Eskimos tied the dogs, in teams of five or six, to stakes driven into the shore or holes cut in the ice.

They made a fine picture, looking shoreward from the ship--nearly two hundred and fifty of them--and their barking could be heard at all hours.
It must be remembered that day and night were still determined only by the clock, as the ever-circling sun had not yet set.