94 THE CHILDREN OF THE COLD. 



some of the handsomest robes and put 

 them on our sledges, and the next day 

 we proceeded on our journey. During 

 that day we passed several musk-ox trails 

 in the snow, and it was very clear that 

 we were in a country where these ani- 

 mals were quite numerous. After going 

 into camp that evening between two 

 slight hills that sloped down to the lake, 

 where we cut through the ice to get our 

 fresh water, there was a time when it 

 appeared that I was the only person 

 out-of-doors ; all of the rest of the 

 people were inside the igloos, or snow 

 huts, that had just been built, arrang- 

 ing the reindeer skins for the bedding 

 for the night. Suddenly, I noticed one 

 of our best hunting-dogs (we had 

 forty-two dogs altogether) run excit- 

 edly over the hill, followed closely 



