blocks and converting them into a dome-shaped igloo, into which baggage and “grub” were tossed and frozen caribou-meat and bannock thawed over the hissing flames of a dimunitive Primus-stove. After two weeks of soul-searing slogging, bucking biting cold and Polar blizzards the dim shoreline of Kent Peninsula loomed at last through the light of the stars, then the dome-shaped igloos of a large Cogmollock village, the glow of seal- COPYRIGHT PHOTO Aligoomtak, who murdered Pugnana for a Winchester rifle. Later killed the daughter for four boxes of cartridges. nonchalently oil lamps within twinkling through sea-ice windows. Giving tongue the dogs leapt frenziedly into their breast-straps. In a frenzied whorl of snarling Huskies, tangled traces, angry oaths and snapping whiplashes, they hurtled into the heart of the aboriginal encampment. Hostile Welcome Like shaggy bears, fur-clad figures emerged from the depths of snow- tunnel porches. About the two lone Mounties swarmed a horde of small Tartar-faced Cogmollocks grasping in polar-bearskin-mittened hands ivory-barbed harpoons, bows and arrows and _ wicked scimitar-like snowknives of native copper. A hundred pairs of slanting Oriental eyes were levelled with hostile gaze upon the intruding Kablunats. The frigid air seemed to pulse with menace. The ready welcome which TWENTY-SIXTH EDITION usually hospitable Eskimos invariably extended to strangers was conspicu- ously lacking. No dusky hands assisted in unharnessing dogs or unlashing sleds. Instead the Cogmollocks stood, hostile and suspicious. From the motley assembly of fur-clad figures stepped a wrinkled old savage; an angatkok, or medicine man, Doak judged from his bizzarre attire. All eyes were rivetted upon him. “What do the Kablunats desire in Olibuk’s village?” croaked the old man with lowering mien. “Tell him,” Doak turned to his interpreter, “we come from the Great White Chief with presents for Olibuk, whose name as a mighty hunter and a righteous man has spread even to the stone igloos of the Kablunats.” The Corporal realized that the little party held their lives in their hands. A single false move or wrong word on their part was all that would be needed to explode this aboriginal dynamite-keg into a seething caul- dron of plunging snowknives and stabbing harpoons. Boldness and tact alone could dispel their hostility and bring about the arrest of Ali- goomiak and Tatamagama. The mention of presents seemed to have its effect. A Mongol-faced Cog- mollock with a small tuft of a goatee beneath his lower lip motioned them to enter a nearby snowhouse, while others unhitched their sleigh-dogs. OKANAGAN LUMBER and SUPPLY CO. JACK FOLLIS — HENRY SIGALET Telephone 3858 2800 Dewdney Avenue * Sash and Door Factory Retail Lumber * VERNON British Columbia McDowell Motors Ltd. Mercury, Lincoln, Meteor Dealers for the North Okanagan A Complete Line of Ford Motor Co. of Canada Parts and Accessories Service for All Ford Motor Co. Products Phone 5600 3102—29th St. VERNON BRITISH COLUMBIA When in Vernon Stop at the... NATIONAL CAFE Soda Fountain — Home-Made Candies Cigars — Tobaccos * Vernon British Columbia McCLOUNIE’S Department Store Ltd. * GENERAL MERCHANTS * Groceries - Drug Supplies Hardware - Flour and Feed Men’s Furnishings Fresh and Cured Meats * FALKLAND B.C. Yukitoshi Yakura Tosh Yakura Coldstream Planing Mill * Phone: Dial 3470 * P.O. Box 336 VERNON, B.C. ALLISON HOTEL Fully Licensed, 66 Rooms, $3.00 and up Rooms with Bath, Dining-Room, Coffee Shop, Banquet Room, Convention Facilities, Vernon’s Newest, Most Modern Hotel F. SCHELL, Manager VERNON, B.C. Vernon Steam Laundry and Dry Cleaners Ltd. 24-HOUR LAUNDRY SERVICE * 2701—32nd St., Vernon Phone 4162 F-M SHOP * EXCLUSIVELY LADIES’ WEAR * VERNON British Columbia “BUILD TO LAST AND SAVE” CONCRETE BLOCKS for Basements and for Heavy Construction DRAIN TILE AND CEMENT PIPE Everything in Cement INTERIOR Cement Blocks Pleasant Valley Road Phone Vernon 2991 VERNON British Columbia Page Thirty-one