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Left on Labrador

CHAPTER XIII
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The shore fairly swarmed.

We could hear them shouting, screaming, and jabbering, and the dogs barking.

Guard looked off and growled slightly, turning his great dark eyes inquiringly to our faces.
"He don't like the looks of them," said Donovan: "remembers the fuss he had with them when they chased Palmleaf and him." "They seem to be preparing to stop there, I should say," Kit remarked.
"They've pulled up the _oomiak_ some way from the water, out of reach of the tide, and are unloading it.

There are quantities of skins, tents, harpoons, &c.

There! they are all starting up from the water, loaded down with trumpery,--going off from the shore toward the middle of the island." They had not seen us; and, after watching them disappear among the barren hillocks, we went back to our camp for dinner.


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