CHAPTER V 



Exciting news Johannes The race along the ice-edge Johannes 

 in a storm Finding water Johannes and the deer tracks 

 Hero's lift. 



IMAGINE the excitement one cold winter's 

 night when a sled came bumping over 



the frozen beach, with the tired dogs 

 pattering in front of it, and we heard a story 

 of a great storm roaring in from the East, 

 and the sea ice all broken by the swell of the 

 waves ! But such was the news that the 

 drivers told us, and there on the beach in the 

 darkness the Eskimos came clustering round 

 to hear. " The storm seemed to chase us," 

 said the drivers, as they loosened the harness 

 from the weary dogs, and unfastened the 

 strappings of their sled load ; " sometimes it 

 nearly caught us, and the thick ice was crack- 

 ing underneath our sled but never mind, 

 here we are and we are very hungry ! ' : 



Somebody led the men away to give them 

 a proper Eskimo supper, while I stood wonder- 

 ing at the power of a storm that could break 

 that tough sea ice, for I knew that the ice 



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