FOUR ESKIMO CHILDREN. I95 



they heard shots, and. keeping a short 

 distance apart, they concealed them- 

 selves as well as they could by lying 

 behind some stones, and awaited results. 



The reindeer, frightened by the rapid 

 shooting, broke in a circle around the 

 hunters, and were rushing down the val- 

 ley, when they saw the dogs and sledges. 

 Quick as a flash, they turned up the pass 

 the boys had entered. When the deer 

 came trotting along, and were with- 

 in about a hundred yards of Kooma- 

 nah, they turned suddenly around and 

 stopped, and, with eyes dilating and ears 

 pricked up, they looked backward 

 through the pass, watching for danger, 

 but never dreaming of that directly 

 ahead of them in the shape of two 

 small boys. 



This stoppage gave Koomanah a 



