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the Northern seas, only on a far grander scale. A 

 rumbling sound can be heard for some time before 

 it really breaks up; but when it does come, there is 

 an awful roar like loudest thunder, and great blocks 

 of ice are lifted and piled one above another, until 

 they are higher than the tops of the highest build- 

 ings in this country. As it breaks up a good many 

 times in the same place, these ice mountains are 

 piled higher and higher, until they get so large we 

 cannot see over them or round them at all. Each 

 time the ice breaks up, there is an open space 

 where the water is free from ice, and the walruses 

 and seals come up to breathe. Sometimes a walrus 

 will crawl away from this opening far enough for the 

 hunters to head him off and kill him. The walrus 

 is hard to kill, for he is so watchful, and there is no 

 way to call him as they do the seal. But when killed 

 he is quite a prize. 



In hunting the seal, they take a different plan. 

 The seal is very fond of its young. The hunters will 

 take advantage of this by lying flat on the ice and . 

 making a sound like the cry of a young seal. In this I 

 way they manage to call the old seal out on the ice. 

 But even then it is not always easy to catch the seal, 

 for it has a strong, flexible tail, by means of which | 

 it is able to throw itself a good many feet at a time, I 

 so that even when on the ice it sometimes gets away - 

 with its awkward rolls and flops and jumps. A seal 

 is very active and almost always in motion. 



Our greatest prize was the whale. Once in awhile 



