Jlnnting Mitsk-Ox with the Dog Ribs 



prostrate form the muffled 

 " marche " or " m'nitla " would 

 quiet them for an instant, when their 

 snarling and snapping would break out 

 anew, until some of us would pick up a 

 billet of wood and " pacify them." After 

 we had once fallen into the sleep of ex- 

 haustion we were seldom awakened by 

 their righting over us. In the morning I 

 would find two or three giddies coiled up 

 in the snow upon my blanket ; the heat 

 of their bodies melted the snow, which 

 froze as soon as they left it, and made my 

 scanty bedding hard and stiff. 



After sixty hours of such resting we 

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