CHAPTER VI, 



SOME OUTDOOR SPORTS. 



HP HE Eskimo boys have a way of play- 

 -* ing at musk-ox hunting that is very 

 vigorous and earnest. In April, 1879, 

 when I was on a sledge-journey to King 

 William's Land, we came upon a herd of 

 musk-oxen that we had sighted the day 

 before, and after running them with dogs 

 for a mile or two, the herd was sur- 

 rounded, or "brought to bay," as hunters 

 would say, and a number of the musk- 

 oxen killed. Of course we picked out 



