. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. t of snow, and as I was making a rapid transit of this,a spot in it proved treacherously soft, which gave me a fall, andheels over head I went to the bottom of the hill. Fortunately itwas the quickest and most direct passage I could make, and, as ithappened, no bone or any thing else was broken. When I ar-rived back and told my companions what I had heard, they de-clared I had had a narrow escape from either hungry wolves or apolar bear. It was 4 30 when we resumed our way acrossFrobisher Bay. Having got fairly through the passage betwee
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. t of snow, and as I was making a rapid transit of this,a spot in it proved treacherously soft, which gave me a fall, andheels over head I went to the bottom of the hill. Fortunately itwas the quickest and most direct passage I could make, and, as ithappened, no bone or any thing else was broken. When I ar-rived back and told my companions what I had heard, they de-clared I had had a narrow escape from either hungry wolves or apolar bear. It was 4 30 when we resumed our way acrossFrobisher Bay. Having got fairly through the passage betweenthe islands on the ice-foot, we turned southerly. We soon sawahead immense numbers of seals out on the ice. They extendedover a large area, and were so numerous that with my glass Icould not count them. Just as we were turning off the ice to an island—J. K. SmithIsland, as I named it—on which we had proposed to make ourseventeenth encampment, three wolves appeared in sight, comingswiftly on our track, and presently on came a fourth—all most. TUB HUNGRY WOLVES. ferocious - looking brutes. They were bold, approaching quitenear, watching our movements, and now and then opening andsnapping their teeth, and smacking their chaps, as if already feast-ing on human steaks and blood. We prepared for the fray byarming with rifle, gun, and spear, each ready to defend himself asbest he could. Between the wolves and us was much hummocky THE HUNGRY WOLVES. 531 ice. Behind this ice we placed ourselves, each seeking to geta good shot. Sharkey led in the attack, leveling his gun on theinstant that one of these savage foes began to make its result was that the hungry wolf turned tail, and went offlimping, minus a man-supper, his companions following hiin. After the excitement of this affair was partially over, Koojesseinformed me that he had known many instances in which Innuitshad been attacked, killed, and devoured by hungry wolves. Whenonce so attacked, it was generally sur
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