shed it farther out until it floated.

Then the men got into their kyaks at the water's edge, fastened their
skin coats over the rims, and paddled out into deep water.

At last, when all the boats, big and little, were afloat, Kesshoo
called out, "We are going north. Follow me."

The women obeyed the signal of Koko's father and the Angakok. The
paddles dipped together into the water. The great boats moved! They
were off!

The children all sat together in the bottom of the boat, but the twins
and Koko were big enough to see over the sides. While the babies played
with the dogs, they were busy watching the things that passed on the
shores. Soon they passed the Big Rock with little auks and puffins
flying about it. They could see the red feet of the puffins, and a blue
fox sitting on the top of the rock, waiting for a chance to catch a
bird.

Then the Big Rock hid the village from sight.

III.

Beyond the Big Rock the country was all new to the twins and Koko. They
looked into narrow bays and inlets as the boat moved along, and saw
green moss carpeting the sunny slopes in sheltered places.

They could even see bright flowers growing in the warm spots which
faced the sun. The sky was blue overhead. The water was blue below.

Beyond the green slopes they could see the bare hillsides crowned with
the white ice cap which never melts, and streams of water dashing down
the hillsides and pouring themselves into the waters of the bay.

When they had gone a good many miles up the coast, Kesshoo waved his
hand and pointed to a strange sight on the shore.

There was a great river of ice! They could see where it came out of a
hollow place between two hills. It looked just like a river, only it
was frozen solid, and the end of it, where it came into the sea, was
broken off like a great wall of ice, and there were cakes of ice
floating about in the water.

Suddenly there was a cracking sound. Menie had heard that sound before.
It was the same sound that he had heard when he went seal-hole hunting
and got carried away on the ice raft. Menie didn't like the sound
anymore. It scared him!

Right after the cracking noise Kesshoo's voice shouted, "Row farther
out! Follow me!"

He turned his kyak straight out to sea. All the other boats followed.

They had gone only about half a mile when suddenly there was a loud
crick-crick-CRACK as if a piece of the world had broken off, and then
there was a splash that could be heard f