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The man was encouraging them along all he could with a long whip, which he threw out with a lively snap, exclaiming, 'Ka-ka! ka-ka! over and over again; and then, 'Nen-ook, nen-ook, nen-ook! many times repeated; for he was now so near that we could distinguish every word he said.
"The bear had been sleeping behind an iceberg, and we had come upon him so suddenly that he had not time even to get out of sight, and we saw him almost as soon as we had discovered the track. 'Nen-ook, nen-ook! cried Eatum, pointing towards the bear; and there he was, sure enough, running as fast as he could.
Man, sledge, dogs, and all passed us quickly by, the man shouting more excitedly than ever to his dogs, sometimes calling them by name, as it seemed to us, and sometimes crying 'Nen-ook, nen-ook! and sometimes, 'Ka-ka! ka-ka! and so away they went, rushing like the wind, the whole scene more strange than strangest dream, the dogs and man like spectral things, so quickly had they come and so unexpectedly; or, at the least, the dogs seemed like howling wolves, and the man a wild man of the frozen ocean, clothed in wild beasts' skins.
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