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is twice the range at which long experience has taught him his
blunt flint headed harpoon would be effective. Still, with a des-
perate effort he hurls his weapon at the animal. It reaches the
mark just as the seal plunges into the water. The blow is weak,
and yet the harpoon, its way cleft for it by the celestial metal,
drives home and the struggling seal is his Starvation is. averted
The heavenly "brown woman" has given the dusky hunter full measure
of sweet life, his own, his wife's, his children's.
It is not many days after this that he and his family
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once more strong and well fed, start for the great Cape, his pre-
cious harpoon-head suspended by a rawhide thong in his bosom.
Arriving, his comrades who had given him up for dead,
crowd aroung him in surprise, which deepens when he draws the
tiny weapon fron his bosom and tell them all his story.
Their surprise changes to awe and then to delight when
later he goes out upon the ice and his powerful arm, no longer
weakened by hunger but in full vigor, they see him hurl his harpoon
with its tiny glistening point and transfix his seal that three
times the distance that their stone weapons would drive home.
With all the speed of wolfish dogs urged by adder like
whips, the wonderful news spreads through the tribe, and before the
sun sets for the next long night, the point of every hunters har-
poon is tipped with bits of the body of the "brown woman".
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