This being more than I had bargained for, I lost no time in giving
chase in the boat, with Ernest and Jack; my wife, urging us to greater
speed, and declaring that some accident could not fail to happen to
`that horrid soap-bubble'.
We soon arrived outside the bay, at the rocks where formerly lay the
wreck, and gazed in all directions for signs of the runaway.
After a time we saw, at a considerable distance, a faint puff of
smoke, followed by the crack of a pistol. Upon this we fired a signal
shot, which was presently answered by another, and, steering in the
direction of the sound, we soon heard the boy's cheery halloo; the
cajack darted from behind a point of land, and we quickly joined
company.
`Come to this rocky beach,' cried Fritz, `I have something to show
you.'
With blank amazement we beheld a fine well-grown young walrus,
harpooned and quite dead.
`Did you kill this creature, my dear Fritz?' I exclaimed, looking
round in some anxiety, and half expecting to see a naked savage come to
claim the prize.
`To be sure, father! Don't you see my harpoon? Why do you doubt it?'
`Well, I scarcely know,' replied I, laughing, `but success so speedy,
so unexpected, and so appropriate, to an amateur Greenlander, took me
by surprise. I congratulate you, my boy! But I must tell you that you
have alarmed us by making this long trip.
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