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Because the museum was also a repository for items brought back by globe-trotting alumni, there are things like a “lucky stick” from China, a Stone Age ax, and a metal object with a label describing it as the “point of a bomb lance bent by explosion in a whale.”

One of the Yankee mates then fired a bomb lance into the bear's hips, and the savage beast hobbled off into the dense cover of the low scrub, where the enraged sailor-folk were unable to get at it.

And was that wound inflicted by a shell, shrapnel, bomb, lance, saber, bullet or any of the other noble weapons of warfare?

One of the Yankee mates then fired a bomb lance into the bear's hips, and the savage beast hobbled off into the dense cover of the low scrub, where the enraged sailor folk were unable to get at it.