nk there's anything to mind,
or I would say throw the calf overboard."

"Yes, that might be the best thing to do."

"But I would not yet, sir. We'll see. These things look very big and
fierce, and sometimes they can fight, but it's mostly bully and noise."

The rifles were ready, and the two Norsemen seized their lances, ready
to repel any savage attack; while for a time the position of the party
appeared to be one of extreme peril. But in this case it proved that,
strong as was the desire of the animals to help and protect one of their
young in trouble, it did not go far enough to make them run much risk.
The Norsemen in both boats were ready to add to their take by lancing
any aggressive individual; but the herd kept at a safe distance, calming
down when the pig-like creature in the boat was quiet, and bursting out
into furious snortings and shows of attack whenever the unhappy little
creature remembered its trouble and burst forth into a wail.

"There!" cried Johannes at last; "there is no danger. A few splashes of
the oar will keep them off. Shall we harpoon another?"

"No," said the captain; "we will be content with what is done. We have
the bear to get as well, so there is plenty of work."

The second boat threw a line on board, which was made fast, and with
this help and the stout arms in their own boat, the dead walrus was
towed along the open waterway to where the bear had been found. Then
busy hands went to work skinning and flensing with such good will that
at last, with both boats most unpleasantly loaded, as the doctor called
it, they rowed back to the chasm and reached the ship in safety, well
satisfied with their day's work.

There was no aggressive walrus herd to make its appearance now, for, in
spite of an occasional wail from the captive, none of its relatives
attempted to enter the passage through to the fiord, and so the
tremendous uproar which arose as soon as an attempt was made to get the
captive on board the steamer, and which echoed loudly from the sides of
the cliffs, was laughed at merrily, the men thoroughly enjoying the task
of hoisting the slippery, yielding creature on deck. This was achieved
by laying a tarpaulin in the bottom of the boat, rolling the cub over,
lashing the corners together, and hoisting and hauling it up to the
gangway, where a little more snorting and barking of a pig-like nature
resulted in the little animal settling down in the bows penned up by a
couple