6* MARINE AND AQUATIC TRESPASSERS. 



by the pressure of the ice and snow ; E is the sea on 

 which the ice-floe is resting. The reader will see from 

 this rough chart what a simple, and yet what an effi- 

 cient, plan this is for enabling the young Seal to be 

 nurtured in safety, and the mother to visit it whenever 

 she likes, and to procure food without betraying the 

 position of her nursling to the many terrestrial foes 

 which would at once render her childless if they dis- 

 covered the hiding-place of her young one. 



SEALS IGLOO. 



A good account of the Seal's igloo is given by 

 Capt. Hall. A cry was raised that one of the Esqui- 

 maux women had caught a young Seal. Everyone ran 

 to the spot, the capture of a Seal being a most mo- 

 mentous event among these people. 



" On reaching the place of capture, we found that 

 Tunukderlien had beneath her feet a young Seal, alive 

 and kicking. Koojesse immediately made a line fast 



