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In the mid August in the second year	A
of my First Polar Expedition the snow and ice of winter	B
almost upon us Kantiuk and I	C
attempted to dash the sledge	D
along Crispin Bay searching again for relics	E
of the Frankline Expedition Now a storm blew	F
and we turned back and we struggled slowly	G
in snow lest we depart land and venture onto ice	H
from which a sudden fog and thaw	I
would abandon us to the Providence	J
of the sea	G
	-
Near nightfall I thought I heard snarling behind us	K
Kantiuk told me that two wolves lean as the bones of a wrecked ship	L
had followed us the last hour and snapped their teeth	M
as if already feasting	N
I carried the one cartridge only	G
in my riffle since approaching the second winter	B
we rationed stores	O
	-
As it turned dark	P
we could push no further and made	Q
camp in a corner of ice hummocks	O
and the wolves stopped also growling	N
just past the limits of vision	R
coming closer until I could hear	S
the click of their feet on ice Kantiuk laughed	T
and remarked that the wolves appeared to be most hungry	G
I raised my rifle prepared to shoot the first that	U
ventured close hoping	N
to frighten the other	B
	-
Kantiuk struck my rifle down and said again	V
that the wolves were hungry and laughed	T
I feared that my old companion	R
was mad here in the storm among ice hummocks	O
stalked by wolves Now Kantiuk searched	W
in his pack and extracted	X
two knives turnoks the Innuits called them	Y
which by great labor were sharpened on both sides	O
to the sharpness like the edge of a barber's razor	B
and approached our dogs	O
and plunged both knives	O
into the body of our youngest dog	Z
who had limped all day	A2
	-
I remember that I consider turning my rifle on Kantiuk	Z
as he approached then passed me	G
carrying knives red with the gore of our dog	Z
who had yowled moaned and now lay	A2
expired surrounded	B2
by curious cousins and uncles possibly	G
hungry and he trusted the knives	O
handle down in the snow	C2
	-
Immediately after he left the knives the vague gray	A2
shape of wolves	O
turned solid out of the darkness and the snow and set ravenously	G
to licking blood from the honed steel	G
the double edge of the knives	O
so lacerated the tongues of the starved beasts	O
that their own blood poured	D2
copiously forth	E2
to replenish the dog's blood and they ate	F2
more furiously than before while Knatiuk laughed	T
and held his sides	O
laughing	Z
	-
And I laughed also perhaps in relief that Providence had delivered us	O
yet again or perhaps under conditions of extremity	G
far from Connecticut finding there creatures	O
acutely ridiculous so avid	B2
to swallow their own blood First one and then the other	B
collapsed dying	Z
bloodless in the snow black with their own blood	B2
and Kantiuk retrieved	G2
his turnoks and hacked lean meat	H2
from the thigh of the larger wolf which we ate	F2
grateful blessing the Creator for we were hungry	G

Donald Hall

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