nto this bright sunshine and
this pleasant summer.

"It was apparent now why the savages had gone to this place. The little
auks came in great numbers, and these birds I was told formed their
principal subsistence in the summer season; indeed sometimes this is
their only kind of food. There must have been millions on millions of
them, swarming there like bees, and they made their nests among the
stones on the hillside. The savages caught them as we had done, in nets.
There were some reindeer, but these were not often caught. The reindeer
here run wild, and are not as in Lapland tamed and taught to draw
sledges. When the savages went on this kind of hunting, two always went
together, walking so close, one behind the other, as to appear like one
man. As soon as the deer saw the hunters, the latter would turn round
and go back the other way, and the deer, being very curious, would
follow them. Thus a deer may sometimes be enticed a long distance, and
if through a narrow defile, there is then a chance of catching him; for
one of the hunters drops down suddenly behind a rock, while the other
goes on as if nothing had happened. The deer, thus cheated, keeps
following the single hunter, where he had before followed a double one
all unknown to himself, and at length approaches very near to the hunter
lying behind the rock. As soon as the deer comes within a few yards of
him, this concealed hunter rises, and throws his harpoon, the line of
which he has previously made fast to a heavy stone. If fortunate enough
to hit the deer, and the harpoon to hold, the animal is easily killed by
the two hunters, who attack it with their spears.

"Besides the birds that I have told you of, there came a great many
snipes, and different varieties of sea-gulls, and ducks of various
species, and gerfalcons, and ravens,--also some little sparrows.

"I was very desirous to know how they managed to make their harpoon and
spear heads, as I observed that they were all tipped with iron. So one
day they took us over to a place they call _Savisavick_, which means
'The Iron Place,'--the name being derived from a large block of meteoric
iron, from which the savages chipped small scales; and these were set in
the edges and tips of their harpoon and spear heads, just as I had done
with my brass buttons. They also made knives in the same way. Many of
their spear-handles were nothing more than narwhal horns, just like 'Old
Crumply'; and so you see how the Lor