1 88 THE CHILDREN OF THE COLD. 



might tell where they were. In the 

 course of the day the prisoners on the 

 ice-raft sighted on the horizon the bold 

 headland of Poillon Point, and by night- 

 time the tide and current had set them 

 in so close to the land that they were 

 able to reach the firm ice along-shore, 

 where they soon hitched up their dogs 

 and rode home as fast as they could over 

 twenty miles that intervened greatly 

 astonishing and delighting their anxious 

 friends. These driftings out to sea on 

 great cakes of ice, however, a&e rather 

 common adventures, and nearly every 

 hunter has had one or two such experi- 

 ences in his life-time. 



But to return to Ahwanak and Koo- 

 manah. When we left our morning's 

 camp for our day's journey, the two boys 

 would walk along, with but little to do ; 



