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Title: Sport and travel in the northland of Canada
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Hanbury, David T. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting Inuit language
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company London, E. Arnold
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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r for a point of land or an islandwhich was visible at the start. During the night three Husky men and one womanarrived. They had all been in the Husky camp I hadfound on the Ark-i-lmik River on my journey in 1899.I could only recall the face of one of them, but they allremembered me. They gave us a little wood and a fewcopper implements. I presented them with a knife, a file,a thimble, a mirror, and a few needles. Needless to saythey were delighted. On May 25, shortly after starting, we spied four Huskiesout on the ice with their dogs. Two of them came towardsus, but were evidently afraid to come close. After the hands up performance had been gone through severaltimes on their part and on ours, they came up and we hada talk. They were out hunting seals. The dogs wereemployed to discover the seals houses, and, in the event ofsuccess, for hauling the seals back to camp. During thewinter the seals inhabit small houses scooped out of thesnow over their blow-holes. In walking on the snow-
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OGDEN BAY TO MELVILLE SOUND 151 covered ice, it is possible to pass right over these withoutdiscovering them. The seal takes alarm very easily, andbeats a safe and hasty retreat down his blow-hole. In thelate spring the heat of the sun begins to have some effect,and ultimately it melts the seals house away and the animallies exposed to view. On Hudson Bay the seal-huntingHusky, by very patient crawling, and by imitating themovements of a seal, approaches inch by inch until he iswithin ten or fifteen yards. Beyond this range he does notcare to risk a shot, for the seal must be at once killed stonedead. One flip of its tail is sufficient to send it down itsblow-hole. The Arctic coast Huskies, having no firearms,are obliged to crawl up close enough to throw a harpoonwith some chance of success, and they suffer many dis-appointments. Very often, just as they are about to throw,down pops the seal, and the fun is over. This was the first day that could really be called aspring day. The snow

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