. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. seal which he hadscented some moments previous. Away he darted as fast as hisnow inspirited companion-dogs would allow him. Koojesse atonce saw what was up, and set up a peculiar continued loud cry,in which I joined. The flying dogs, with kummitie, and ournoise, so alarmed poor seal that it knew not what to do. Theseal had his head over his hole, yet high raised, looking at themotley sight, and listening to the paudemonian sounds, whichfrightened it near unto death. On we went; but when the dogswere within a few paces only, the seal regained
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. seal which he hadscented some moments previous. Away he darted as fast as hisnow inspirited companion-dogs would allow him. Koojesse atonce saw what was up, and set up a peculiar continued loud cry,in which I joined. The flying dogs, with kummitie, and ournoise, so alarmed poor seal that it knew not what to do. Theseal had his head over his hole, yet high raised, looking at themotley sight, and listening to the paudemonian sounds, whichfrightened it near unto death. On we went; but when the dogswere within a few paces only, the seal regained his senses, anddown he went just in time to save his—blubber! Koojesse saysthat young seals are often captured by such procedure as this, butseldom old ones. On arriving near the base of French Head, a little the other * French Head is a prominent headland, south side of Field Bay, and so namedto commemorate the death of the Frenchman, which occurred near its base, as re-lated in Chapter XIII. French Head is in lat. 62° W 30 N., long. CI io SEAL-CHARMING. 321 side of it, we turned toward Chapell Inlet, intending to cross overthe isthmus at its bead. The channel by which we had first en-tered this inlet in the Rescue (August 21st, 1860) was now full ofhummocks; we therefore crossed over a neck of laud perhapshalf a mile wide, covered with submerged ice. The floating qual-ities of the sledge, as well as of the load, including ourselves,made our passage by water rapid, though not very comfortable. We crossed this pass—used frequently by the Innuits andthe ships crew in going to and from Cape True—and entered theinlet. Here I found many portions of the ice covered with themelted snows, and in some places the sledge sank deep in the wa-ter, much to the annoyance of the dogs as well as of ourselves. On the way Koojesse again had talk with some more sealswhich we saw, and it was with great interest I watched hiin. Helay down on one side, and crawled by hitches or jerks towa
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