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THE POLAR WORLD. 



SPEAKING THROUGH THE SNOW. 



the second or third puff, he knows that the nose of the seal is at the bottom of 

 the breatliing-hole, perhaps two yards below the spot where he is standing, j 

 The spear must be thrust with ])crfect accuracy ; for an error of a quarter of an ( 

 inch on cither side would miss the hole, and the spear-point would strike the 



