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by the remainder, one after the other. 

 Then, to my great surprise, I saw two 

 musk-oxen run down the farther ridge 

 of the low hills ; and the pack of howl- 

 ing, barking dogs soon brought them to 

 bay on the ice of the lake not fifty yards 

 from where the igloos were built. I 

 acknowledge that I was nearly as much 

 excited as the dogs over this strange and 

 huge wild game, and I at once shouted 

 in at the entrance of my own igloo to my 

 best Eskimo hunter, Toolooah : 



" Oo-mi ng- mu k ! oo-ming-muk // " 

 (Musk-oxen ! musk-oxen ! !) 



Toolooah seized his gun and ran to 

 the top of the nearest ridge, about 

 twenty yards away, followed by all the 

 hunters in camp who had heard my out- 

 cry. And then the whole band of them 

 sat down in a row on the ridge and 



