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He was walking about on the ice floe rather aimlessly until we saw

him move purposefully towards a depression in the ice and then
we saw that he had made a kill. He was in process of eating the

seal so he would come over and strip a couple of meat pieces off
and devour it. Accompanying him were two ivory gulls, the first of
these we had seen. We watched our Mr. Diner Bear for quite some

time as he indecisively strolled about, jumped into the sea for a
swim, came back to the kill site, and finally slipped off into the

water again and began swimming at a 90 degree angle away from
the ship. We lost him in the swells and turned again to check out

the kill site more closely and also to appreciate the ivory gulls
more.

Then it was time for tea in the Lounge while we awaited a talk on
seabirds of the Arctic by one of the naturalists, Brent. He had a