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Left on Labrador

CHAPTER IX
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With a glass we could see him writhing and jumping about.

At this some of the crowd ran off up the ledges for several rods, and stood gazing anxiously off toward the schooner.
"Give 'em another!" exclaimed the captain.
But, while we were loading, twenty or thirty got into their _kayaks_; and, one of the _oomiaks_ had eight or ten in it ere Wade was ready to give them a third shot.

He depressed it three degrees this time.

The ball hit the water about half way to the shore, and, skipping on, struck under the stem of a _kayak_, throwing it into the air, and, glancing against the side of the skin-clad _oomiak_, dashed it over and over.

The crew were pitched headlong into the water.


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