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then we poled on again while the tea was warming over the fire There was a short rest for place of stones.
was making
in a hollow
;
men during the afternoon, when the sails were up and we beat to and fro along a sheltered run but soon the captain said something that Aha and brought forth a chorus of caused a general turning of heads. There was a peculiar turbulence about the water in the
;
"
s,"
front of us,
about the
and there was something familiar there on the right around
hills
;
was the beginning of the sled-pass over Kiglapeit, and we were entering on the piece of water that never freezes. Soon we were tumbling and twisting among the currents of a sort of miniature whirlpool, and the oarsmen were straining and shouting in time while the captain steadied the boat as well as he could with the long sculling-oar at the stern. I had seen the black spot of water on the white sheet of ice only a month or two before, and a time as
we passed the
place on our winter journeys I had wondered why Julius led the dogs close under the rock. All the
many
Sikkoexplanation he had given me was but now (never frozen) karungnaipok-tava I understood how the power of the battling currents gives the ice no chance to set, even in the bitter cold of January. "
"
;