CHAPTER XL 



SEAL HUNTING. 



'"PHE ice on the ocean forms from six 

 * to ten feet thick, and through this 

 deep ice the seals manage to scratch a hole 

 to the top, and then form a little igloo 

 in the foot or two of snow that usually 

 covers the ice. In the top of this little 

 snow dome is an opening as large as 

 your two fingers ; and to this igloo the 

 seal comes, about every quarter of an 

 hour, to breathe. When he puts his 

 nose close to the little hole at the top 



