98 PERILS OF THE HUNTERS.

 

all frost-bitten. Their deer hunt proved
q, dear hunt, you see. .

Captain Parry and his crew finally
had to go ashore on this island, and to
spend a whole winter there. What a
gloomy place it must have been to live
in so long. They built a hut, and made
it as comfortable as they could; but it
was a wretched thing enough. One
day, a man wandered some distance
from the hut. Poor fellow! when he
was on his way back, he was chased
almost to the hut by a huge white bear.
His fingers were so badly frozen while
he was gone, that the surgeon was