1 66 THE CHILDREN OF THE COLD. 



as well, can be busy catching salmon 

 while the hunters are roaming over the 

 hills looking for reindeer and musk-oxen. 

 Here they will sit, on a couple of snow- 

 blocks, nearly all day long, holding the 

 hook a couple of feet below the ice, and 

 bobbing it continually to attract the no- 

 tice of the fish. Sometimes they attach 

 small, polished ivory balls near the hook, 

 to attract the fish, which seeing them, 

 from a long distance, dancing up and 

 down and glistening in the light, at once 

 swim up and try to eat the reindeer bait 

 on the bent hook, to their certain and 

 speedy disgust. As a protection from 

 the wind, the young fishers often build a 

 sort of half igloo, and shelter themselves 

 behind it. This also serves as a place to 

 hide the fish that are caught ; for there 

 are always a crowd of half-starved dogs 



