Part 14 (1/2)

”Down-streaht crept the Indians in their war-canoes These they dragged ashore and hid in the rocks Nextthe Eskimo came upon their enemies and at once attacked them

”The Eskimo are little people as co like bears beside them, drove the Eskimo back and back toward the sea

”Stubbornly the 'huskies' contested every inch of the ground Now and again they would crawl into holes a the rocks--but the Indians would find them there and cut them doithout mercy, like animals trapped in their burrows

”The Eskimo had their choice between the Indians and the sea They would carry their children and even their wives down to the boats on their backs, and sometimes the frail skin-boats would turn over, and all the people in the out to sea, they had no place to go: the Indians waiting ashore would get them whenever and wherever they landed

”At last--there were only the Indians in their war-paint, dancing and howling on the beach--not an Eskimo was left to tell the tale”

A few days later, Dr Grenfell came to Hopedale

There, he found, the Eskimo believed that Queen Victoria, away off there on the other side of the ocean, was sitting on a rock waiting for the _Harmony_ (the Moravian ht

They loaded hiive her

Especially, they wanted hirateful to her for sending hiland was at war in Egypt, and a brave general was holding the upper Nile against a crowd of savages, although they hadn't the slightest notion as to where Egypt was or who the Egyptians were, they got out everything they had in the way of firearan to drill up and down on the rocky beach

One old fellow had a police for hiround like a bedraggled water-fowl He also had a single epaulet that had coth of that uniform they made him captain of the company

Then they all o to war and help the English!+”

”It won't be any use,” said theway off--and the ill be over before you could get there!”

”Never o!”

They kept on drilling andwarlike noises with their mouths till the ice le with the cold sea and the barren land for a living they forgot all about war and the rumors of war

There were seals and bears and foxes to be hunted, instead of h to catch a black fox in a trap of stones

He was so happy over the catch that tears of joy ran down his face as he carried the precious skin to the store He said God had heard his prayers and made his family suddenly rich

The storekeeper paid him forty-five dollars That seemed like a fortune The price was not paid in cash, however, but in food

Staggering under the load he came back to his hut, and when the stuff was put on the shelves it looked like such a lot he began to think he and his faet it eaten before the end of the world cahbors

Be sure they ca) for ht to detect it

The invitation ran: ”Come and eat and stay withover the little ones, and the dogs outstripping theirto their kind

Alas! in two days they had literally eaten their generous host out of house and ho packs there was the wolf of hunger gnawing at the door