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64 food, the result of his summers hunting, is here, and here he must remain till spring. All goes well with him through the long dark arctic night till early in February, when the southern sky at noon shows for a few hours the twilight of returning day. Then a she bear prowling along the shore gaunt with the winters hunger and accom- panied by her two cubs, scents and pounces upon his cache of seal meat. Warned by the cries of his doge, the hunter attacks the robbers with desperation, but is unable to prevent their carrying off all his remaining supply of meat, and is left with two of his best dogs dead, and himself with a gaping claw slash in his side. Worse than all this, the old bear carries away in her body his only flint harpoon head. He is left foodless and weaponless. His only chance is to try and reach Cape York through the darkness and savage cold. But now as if Tornarsuk (the evil one) was angered at him, the devilish storms of the spring equinox set in, and for days and weeks the world is but an arctic inferno of blinding snow, dark- ness, and deadly winds. When at last it clears and the sun glares coldly over the southward wilderness of bergs, glinting the frost crystals in the air, and coloring the marble heights of the Ice Cap pale yellow, our hunter and his family have eaten the last

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