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of seal meat. Warned by the cries of his dogs, the hunter at-
tacks the robbers with desperation, but is unable to prevent
their carrying off all his remaining supply of meat, and is
left 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,
darkness 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 yellow, our hunter and his family have eaten
the last morsel of their last dog, and are starving upon frag-
ments of the skins about their huts. Yet out upon the white
surface of the bay are black spots which he knows are seals.
He attempts to find a stone that he can utilize for a har-
poon-head, but the search is useless. Everything is covered
with the pitiless shroud of snow.
He gives up hope and is crouched in his freezing hut wait-
ing for the end which will come very quickly now to his wife
and babies, when suddenly it flashes through his brain that
the previous summer while bringing a big seal upon his back
across the little isthmus behind his hut, he had sat down to
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