[Frontispiece: From it was evoked a monstrous shape.]

"Above this far northern sea Ursa
Major sailed so directly overhead
that he seemed like to fall on us."
—From an early voyage to the coast of Labrador.

Under the Great Bear

BY

KIRK MUNROE

AUTHOR OF
"The Flamingo Feather," "Dorymates,"
"The White Conquerors," Etc.

New York
International Association of Newspapers and Authors
1901

COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY