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had not seen; evidently he had gone right on. I 
gave the man a tin of pemmican for his trouble and 
we went on our way again. 
It was long after sunset when we built our igloo 
for the night. I determined that Colt should not 
get away again, so we tied his mouth to prevent 
him from chewing his harness and took him into 
the igloo with us. In some way, however, he 
chewed himself free, broke out of the igloo and 
escaped. The distance was now too great to send 
back for him and I gave up all hope of ever seeing 
him again. 
With our dogs again reduced to four, two of 
which were of little use, we got away at five o’clock 
the next morning. Early in the afternoon we 
came upon an old man and a boy, collecting big 
logs of driftwood. I asked the old man what he 
was going to do with the logs, but could not under¬ 
stand his reply. Perhaps he planned to build a 
house or a boat. He had a tent in which he was 
living and I gathered he was going to move east¬ 
ward that afternoon. We made a fire of drift¬ 
wood and had some tea and then went on. Katak- 
tovick told me that he understood from the old man 
that he would probably overtake us later on and 
give us a lift with his sledge. Sure enough, a 
couple of hours before sunset, he came up with us 
and invited us to ride. The snow was light and 
