THE ESQUIMAUX SEAL DOG.
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carefully avoiding all disturbance of the snow. Then the sealer remains silently and patiently listening for a seal's "blow."
On hearing the second or third "puff," the spear is forcibly struck through the snow to the seal-hole, the harpoon penetrating the unseen seal's head. The seal instantly dives, and runs out the full length, say six to ten fathoms, of the line
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AN ESQUIMAUX AND HIS SEAL DOG.
that connects the harpoon to the harpooner. The seal's breathing-hole is then "unsnowed" and enlarged to the size of the main, when the prize is drawn forth.
Thus seal-holes are found and seals captured during the long winters of the North.
Among the Innuits just referred to as now arrived were