100 THE CHILDREN OF THE COLD. 



rounded and brought to bay by wolves or 

 dogs, our dogs kept barking and snap- 

 ping and jumping at them, evidently 

 thinking they were genuine musk-oxen, 

 and that there was a good prospect of 

 another nice dinner if they only kept the 

 oxen from running away until the hunters 

 came up and killed them, as in the case 

 of the real musk-oxen. 



A musk-ox resembles a buffalo in ap- 

 pearance, except that the musk-ox has no 

 " hump " on its- shoulders, and the hair 

 on its robe is two or three times as long 

 as that on the buffalo (or American bison, 

 as it should be called). In the winter- 

 time this long hair reaches down beyond 

 the knees almost to the hoofs, and when 

 the musk-oxen are walking on the soft 

 snow, they sink in so that you can not 

 see their legs at all. It was this long 



