We had a hard time of it that year, for stormy weather came up and we nearly perished in a blizzard." "We'll build a snow _igloo_" said Bobby, "and be pretty comfortable.
We'll take Father's snow knives and two of his old stone lamps.

We'll have plenty of seal oil to burn.

You know there's no wood out there, and it isn't worth while hauling any." "Yes," agreed Skipper Ed, "we'll need the lamps, though I don't like them.

I never could get used to them, and I never liked to go too far from wood." And so it came to pass that in the bright moonlight of Monday morning they lashed upon the two _komatiks_ a good supply of hardtack and boiled salt pork--the only provisions that would not freeze too hard to eat--with tea, and sleeping bags, and numerous articles of equipment for their own use and comfort, and a day's supply of seal meat for the dogs.
Then the dogs were caught and harnessed, and in great excitement began to strain at the traces and howl their eagerness to be off.

_Oksunaes_ were shouted to Abel and Mrs.Abel, and Bobby, grasping the front of one _komatik_, and Skipper Ed the front of the other, they pulled them sharply to one side to break them loose, shouting to the teams as they did so: "_Hu-it! Hu-it!_" Then they flung themselves upon the _komatiks_, and away they dashed, down the steep and slippery incline, and off through the shore hummocks at a wild, mad gallop.
They were away to the _sena_, and the Great Adventure, at last..