140 NEW LAND. 



the animal, cut up rations for the dogs and gave them a good 

 supper; and, needless to say, we did not forget ourselves, but 

 supped daintily off broth, meat, and a modicum of bacon. 



The shooters then told us that they had started to walk inwards 

 on the ice, and had seen from there two oxen on the plain. They 

 had hurried back to camp, fetched the dogs, and driven off. The 

 oxen soon caught sight of their pursuers, and took their stand on a 

 sand-hill well suited for a fight; but it was not to be. At a 



VIEW OF HEUKEKA SOUND. 



suitable distance Baumann slipped his dogs, and Peder picked off 

 the animals. 



While they were skinning one of the oxen, three wolves came 

 running across a steep drift straight up to the animals, but on 

 seeing the men and all the dogs they had scruples, and stopped 

 short on a ridge of sand, three or four hundred yards away. There 

 they sat down, and in a loud howling concert gave unequivocal 

 expression to their displeasure at the new kind of weapon which 

 had made its appearance in their domain. They kept up this 

 horrible and particularly irritating noise during the whole of the 



