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iron along the point of a piece of bone, fits the bone to the
shaft, and with feverish energy starts out upon the ice towards
one of those tantalizing black spots.
When still some distance away he lies down upon the snow
and begins crawling towards the seal in the peculiar fashion
of his race. Now however, weakness begins to tell upon him, an
and before he gets within striking distance, he is obliged to
stop for breath. The seal takes fright and starts for his hole
in the ice. It is a moment of agony for the starving hunter.
The distance of the seal is twice the range at which long ex-
perience has taught him his blunt flint headed harpoon would be
effective. Still, with a desperate 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 strug-
gling seal is his. Starvation is averted. The heavenly "brown
woman", has given the dusky hunted 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,
once more strong and well fed, start for the great Cape, his
precious harpoon-head suspended by a rawhide thong in his
bosom.
Arriving, his comrades who had given him up for dead,
crowd around him in surprise, which deepens when he draws the
tiny weapon from his bosom and tells them all his story.
Their surprise changes to awe and then to delight when
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