Then they came among the pressure ridges, and had to pick their course in and out for another two miles before they came at last to the open sea.
Seals were numerous on the ice edge, and on floating pans of ice, and the dogs began to strain and howl in eagerness to attack the game, and would have dashed to the very water's edge but for big hoops of walrus hide thrown over the front of the _komatik_, which dragged into the snow under the runners and stopped them, and when they were stopped only the menace of the long whips could induce the animals to lie quietly down.
"We're going to have a dandy hunt!" exclaimed Bobby.

"Shall we go right at it, and build an _igloo_ later ?" "Don't you think we had better build the _igloo_ first ?" suggested Skipper Ed, laughing at Bobby's eagerness.

"Then when we're tired we won't have it to do, or to think about, and we'll have a shelter all ready.

Let us make things ship-shape." "I suppose you're right," and Bobby grinned.
One of the two lamps and a share of the provisions had been left in the _igloo_ on Itigailit Island, which was to be their land base and their cache.

But they had brought with them the other lamp and necessaries to make their hunting _igloo_ comfortable.