106 THE CHILDREN OF THE COLD. 



musk-ox, is usually killed at the first 

 shot. 



I once found an old Eskimo hunter, 

 nowever, in my camp in North Hudson's 

 Bay, whose hair and scalp had been 

 taken completely off by the bite of a 

 wounded bear that he had endeavored 

 to kill ; and Toolooah once fired at a big 

 bear, with too hasty an aim, hoping to 

 save one of his dogs that the bear had 

 under its paws. He only wounded the 

 huge animal, which instantly charged 

 him, and was only killed by a lucky shot 

 just as it was close upon the hunter. 



Toolooah told me that he has seen 

 polar bears climb up places so steep and 

 perpendicular that the natives could not 

 follow them without cutting in the wall 

 of ice niches wherein to put their hands 

 and feet, and even in some instances, an 



