CHAPTER XT.

A hunting-eapedition, tn the course of which the hunters mect with many
uiterestiny, danycrous, peculiar, and remarkable experiences, and make
acquaintance with seals, walruses, deer, and rablits.

E must now return to Fred Ellice and _ his

companions, Meetuck the Esquimau, O’Riley,

and Joseph West, whom we left while they were on
the point of starting on a hunting-cxpedition.

They took the direction of the ice-hummocks out to
sea, and, seated comfortably on a large sledge, were
dragged by the team of dogs over the ice at the rate
of ten miles an hour.

“Well! did I iver expect to ride a carriage and
six?” exclauned O’Riley in a state of creat glee as
the dogs dashed forward at full speed, while Meetuck
flourished his awful whip, making it crack like a
pistol-shot ever and anon.

The sledge on which they travelled was of the
very curious and simple construction peculiar to the
Esquimaux, and was built by Peter Grim under the
direction of Meetuck. It consisted of two runners of
about ten feet in length, six inches hich, two inches
broad, and three feet apart. They were made of