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us try and picture to ourselves the first use of the iron from
the "Sqviksue".
It is in the late spring of several hundred years ago. One
of the most selfareliant of the Cape York hunters has come with
his family into the depths of Melville Bay on a protracted bear
hunt, and led away by the excitement of the chase he remains
until the sudden breaking up of the ice cuts off his retreat
to the Cape.
Constructing a rough stone shelter (which it so happens is
at the head of the bay where the "brown woman" from heaven and
her dog lie) he covers it with the skins of seals which he cap-
tures, and lives in comfort through the summer, hunting indus-
triously.
With the approach of winter he covers his hut deep with
stones and snow, for although he could now reach Cape York, all
his food, the result of his summer's hunting, is here, and here
he must remain till spring.
All goes well with him through the long dark Arctic night
for
till early in February, when the southern sky at noon shows a
few hours the twilight of returning day. Then a she bear
prowling along the shore gaunt with the winter's hunger and
accompanied by her two cubs, scents and pounces upon his cache
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