"Nothing would suit me better than to race with him." In fifteen or twenty minutes the ship was off the entrance of the channel; but she held on her course, and had soon passed it.
"Now that old fellow feels bad!" laughed Kit.

"How savage he will be for the next twenty-four hours! I pity the sailors! He will have two or three of them 'spread-eagled' by sunset to pay for this, the old wretch! He looked just like that sort of a man." "I wonder what our Husky friends thought of this little bombardment!" exclaimed Wade, looking off toward the mainland.

"Don't see anything of them." "Presume we sha'n't get that old 'sachem' that saw Palmleaf to visit us again in a hurry," said Kit.
We watched the ship going off to the south-west for several hours, till she gradually sank from view.
"Well, captain," said Raed, "you are not going to let this adventure frighten you, I hope." "Oh, no! I guess we can take care of ourselves.

Only, in future, I think we had better keep a sharper lookout, not to let another ship come up within three miles without our knowing it." It was now after four o'clock, P.M.Not caring to follow too closely after the company's ship, we beat back to our anchorage of the previous evening, and anchored for the night.
Saw nothing more of the Esquimaux; and, early the next morning, sailed out into the straits, and continued on during the whole day, keeping the mountains of the mainland to the northward well in sight at a distance of eight or ten miles, and occasionally sighting high islands to the south of the straits.
By five o'clock, afternoon, we were off a third group of islands on the north side, known as the "Upper Savage Isles." During the evening and night we passed them a few miles to the south,--a score of black, craggy islets.

Even the bright light of the waning sun could not enliven their utter desolation.