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Regnar jumped into the boat, and the two pushed off and secured the seals, both of which were very fat, but covered with blood, and much cut about the head and neck. Securing them with a rope, they returned to the shore, and with some difficulty hauled them out upon the berg, where Peter and Regnar hastened to skin them, and preserve such portions of the meat as they required.
To the north and west all was ice, and in neither direction could either see any signs of the presence of man. To the southward the pack seemed more open, and as they watched, they saw the leads grow wider, and the pools becoming more frequent. "We are passing the islands fast," said Regnar, "and by to-morrow will be well to the south-east of Deadman's Island.
Regnar smiled pityingly. "Do you see the kind of ice which surrounds us now those heavy floes, hard, flinty, and widespread, and that berg, gigantic, and almost as hard as glass? Well, if we have a heavy blow from the north-west, we shall be jammed between the ice now resting on the Magdalens and those Greenland monsters yonder, and if there is a weak spot in our berg " "Well, what then, Regnie?"
It was wonderful to see how, like one who uses a trip-hammer, he drew the iron under the rapidly-plied axe, until the round spike was a narrow, thin blade about six inches in length. Then shifting the angle of the iron a little, he directed Regnar how to beat down one side to an edge, and lastly how to curve the flat of the blade a little at the point, or rather end.
Guess blow him head off too," grumbled Peter, with a strange mixture of vexation, pleasure, and humor in his tone, for he loved Regnar, disliked to see men or boys cry, and knew that Regnar's misadventure was more unpleasant than dangerous. In a moment or so Regnar arose, holding his head with both hands, and an evident feeling of uncertainty as to his whereabouts. "Well, you call that gun Baby!
Turning the body over, a work of some time and difficulty, for the wet clothes had frozen, an expression of surprise escaped the lips of Regnar, for the rear of the skull, from which the missile had issued, was almost blown into pieces. "How could a bullet have done this?" asked the youth, gravely.
This bullet enters the flesh, but explodes when it strikes a bone, and a huge mass of bone and muscle is usually driven out in front of the issuing projectile. Such a bullet has destroyed this man." A curious ring on the little finger of the right hand attracted the notice of Regnar, who with a glad cry seized the stiffened hand and tried to remove it, but the swollen flesh baffled his efforts.
Regnar seemed little surprised, but Waring turned almost white with anxiety and disappointment. "I thought as much," said La Salle, quietly.
Regnar took the remains of the steel boat-hook, and succeeded in straightening the hook, which he drew down into the shape of a rude chisel. Peter tempered it for him, and then, with this rude tool and an axe, he split the boulder of soapstone into halves, making two bowl-shaped pieces, about fifteen inches across, in the line of cleavage.
Waring joined him in the task. "There's the big berg where we killed ussuk yesterday. Less go and look around. Perhaps we see land," said Regnar. "No, Regnie; we are fifty miles from any land now, and I think about one third of the way across to the Magdalen Islands.
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