DANGEROUS POSITION. 1^>9 



the death^Yail of the Irish, the shout of the Red Indian, 

 both of which I have heard in force, fall far short of 

 Mooldooyah's appeal to his fates. They presently 

 returned to their sledge, where I joined them, and 

 found Yaneenga weeping profusely but quietly, 

 while her husband sat in moody silence and rephed 

 only briefly to my questions. Ere long I regained 

 my own sledge and reclined against it until morning, 

 but sleep came tardily, and then only in broken, fitful 

 portions. 



Glimmering dayhght on the 12 th brought no 

 prospect of rehef; the snow still thickly falling in 

 enormous flakes, circumscribed the view at a few 

 yards' extent, and Mooldooyah could not ventiue to 

 proceed in any, as the right, direction, nor even show 

 the way off the salt-water ice ; this, however, the 

 compass enabled us to do, and gaining the shore we 

 travelled on until noon in great uncertainty. Being 

 still utterly ignorant of om' position, we then once 

 more halted, obtaining shelter to leeward of a hill, 

 for the wind had risen and the temperatm-e fallen 

 considerably ; both these occmTences gave good cause 

 for dread of their fatal effects in om* exposed and 

 unprepared condition. 



It was clearly useless to move, since we should 

 wander we knew not whither ; patience and hope 



