"it will frighten
them all into their holes. If you will go on with the dog, I will lie
down here and will bring you as many rabbits as I can carry."

Two hours later he came down to the tent with two dozen rabbits he had
shot. After cooking two of them, and giving one to Jack as his share,
they packed up all their belongings and again took to the canoe. They
used their paddles until round the cape, and then heading westward
hoisted their sail, for what wind there was was still from the north,
and the help it afforded was sufficient greatly to reduce the labour of
paddling. They kept steadily on, one or other taking occasional snatches
of sleep. But with this exception, and that of the time spent by Luka in
cooking, they continued to paddle until, forty hours after starting,
they reached Cape Golovina, passing between it and Beloc Island. They
did not make the halt they had intended under shelter of the cape, for
the weather was fine, and Godfrey wanted to take advantage of the north
wind as long as it lasted. Once round the cape they headed nearly due
south, and the wind freshening a little, drove them along merrily, and
they were able to cease paddling, and to take a fair proportion of sleep
alternately.

Luka was now getting more accustomed to the management of the sail, and
no longer feared an occasional jibe, and night and day--if it could be
called night when the sun never set--they continued their voyage along
the coast of the Yamal Peninsula. At the end of the fourth day the wind
freshened so much that the large sail was taken down and the
leg-of-mutton sail substituted for it; but as the wind continued to
rise, and the sea to get up fast, Godfrey began to look out for some
spot into which to run for shelter. The coast was very indented and
broken, and in two hours they passed the mouth of a deep bay into which
the boat was at once directed, and was presently moored under the
shelter of its northern bank.

"She is a splendid sea-boat," Godfrey said. "If it wasn't for the boat
in tow I should not mind what weather I was out in her."

Their stay was of short duration, for in a few hours the wind sank
again. "I don't think it is done yet," Godfrey said when they were
beyond the shelter of the bay. "I fancy it will blow up again presently;
still we may as well push on. I think it is rather more from the east
than it was."

For the next twenty-four hours, however, there was no very marked change
in the force of