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Updated: May 18, 2025
"Um-m," Lucile answered back. And the next moment they were both fast asleep. All through the night they slept there with the Great Dipper circling around the North Star above them, and with the ice-floe carrying them, who could tell where? The two following days were spent in fruitless hunting for wild duck and in making trips to the rubbish pile.
When the girls joined Phi on the edge of the ice-floe, they looked about for the guide but saw none. Only Rover barked them a welcome. "Where's the guide?" asked Lucile. "You'll see. C'm'on," said the boy, leading the way. For a mile they traveled over the solid shore-ice. They then came to a stretch of water, dark as midnight. At the edge of this was a two-seated kiak.
And from that evening a kind of silence fell between them, they were separated as by an ice-floe.
A couple of hundred yards away three seals lay basking on an ice-floe, and in the distance could be seen other whales spouting. So the mother knew that she and her baby were not alone in these wide bright spaces of sea and sky. "As a general rule, the great whale was apt to stay not more than two or three minutes at the surface, but to spend most of her time in the moderate depths.
But the raft being on the surface was not so easily carried. Don thought for a few seconds. "Dot, if we try to push that floe off we won't be dragged along with it. She's doin' all the mischief!" So both children turned their effort to shoving off the ice-floe and soon succeeded in moving it beyond the reach of the poles.
The moon shone, and the clouds went flitting like ice-floe about the sky, now gray in distance, now near the moon and white, now in her very presence and adorned with her favour on their bosoms, now drifting again into the gray; and still the two, Ginevra and Gibbie, stood motionless Gibbie with the tears in his eyes, and Ginevra weeping as if her heart would break; and behind the granite blocks lay Donal.
The horde of natives did, at last, request it in a rather forceful and threatening way. The three men, whom Jarvis had singled out as "'eathen from another tribe," became so insulting that Dave could scarcely restrain Jarvis from braining their leader on the spot. They were led to the edge of the ice-floe where, hidden in a remote corner, was an oomiak, a native boat of skins.
Dot, we have floated out more'n ten feet from the bank!" said Don, looking about doubtfully. "So we have! We'd better pole back again," said Dot. Without another word, both children tried to pole back, but they were working against the current that had begun to take hold of the ice-floe and raft. The ice-floe was so deep down in the water that the current that ran underneath drew it along.
How little and old she is! One can hardly believe she could have brought such a giant into the world!" Excitedly they followed her, while she tottered over the broken stone of the floor of the basin, which was littered with the debris of explosions until it resembled an ice-floe under pressure. She made her way but slowly, and it looked continually as though she must break her legs.
"Now, then," cried Fred, as they drew up on a level portion of the ice-floe, where the snow on its surface was so hard that the runners of the sledge scarce made an impression on it, "let us to work, lads, and get the tarpaulins spread. We shall have to sleep to-night under star-spangled bed-curtains."
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