So we took the heart and liver and buried them for a few minutes in a patch of snow to cool them.

Then we washed them in the ice-cold water of the stream, and lastly ate them greedily.

It sounds horrible enough, but honestly, I never tasted anything so good as that raw meat.

In a quarter of an hour we were changed men.

Our life and vigour came back to us, our feeble pulses grew strong again, and the blood went coursing through our veins.