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but if reindeer were seen grazing on the 

 distant hills, Ahwanak and Koomanah 

 would take charge of two of the sledges, 

 while the men seized their guns and tried 

 to kill some of the deer. If the reindeer 

 were directly in our path, the dogs and 

 sledges halted, and the two boys had 

 only to stand guard ; but if they were off 

 our track, then the sledges kept on their 

 way, some man taking the foremost 

 sledge, and the boys easily driving the 

 dogs, which very willingly follow a 

 sledge-track in front of them. In case 

 the party halted, the boys would watch 

 the hunters from the top of a loaded 

 sledge, and if they saw one come to the 

 top of a ridge or on a hill, and with one 

 arm extended, swing his body from a 

 perpendicular nearly to the ground, they 

 knew a reindeer had been killed, and that 



