with the young one lying within, and the mother coming up to visit it. By the time the sun melts off the covering snow, exposing and destroying the dome of the igloo, the young seal
NO. 1, SECTIONAL VIEW OF SEAL HOLE AND SEAL IGLOO.
is ready to take care of itself. The second engraving represents a seal that has just come up through the water to its
sharp, lady-like nails with which its fore flippers are armed, the excavated snow being taken down beneath the thick ice from time to time by the seal. Soon after this house is prepared a little seal is born. Seal igloos are made about the 1st of April, the time when the "pupping" season commences. None but very sharp-scented animals can find these igloos, and they are the seals' worst enemies. These animals are the polar bear, the fox, and the seal-dog. The latter, however, simply scent out the igloo, leaving the master to catch the game, while the bear and fox not only find, but capture it. When the dog has led his master to the secret seal lodge beneath the snow, the man retreats from fifteen to twenty paces, and then runs forward swiftly, leaping high and far on concluding his race. As he comes down he crushes in the dome, and quickly thrusts his seal hook this way and that around in the igloo, till he has the young seal quivering in the agonies of death.
