CHAPTER TWENTY.

BENJY'S ENJOYMENTS INTERRUPTED, AND POLOELAND OVERWHELMED WITH A CATASTROPHE.

One pleasant morning, towards the end of summer, Benjamin Vane went out with his gun in the water-tramp on the large lake of Paradise Isle.

Leo and he had reached the isle in one of the india-rubber boats. They had taken Anders with them to carry their game, and little Oblooria to prepare their dinner while they were away shooting; for they disliked the delay of personal attention to cooking when they were ravenous! After landing Benjy, and seeing him busy getting himself into the aquatic dress, Leo said he would pull off to a group of walruses, which were sporting about off shore, and shoot one. Provisions of fowl and fish were plentiful enough just then at the Eskimo village, but he knew that walrus beef was greatly prized by the natives, and none of the huge creatures had been killed for some weeks past.

About this time the threatened war with the northern Eskimos had unfortunately commenced.

The insatiable Grabantak had made a descent on one of Amalatok's smaller islands, killed the warriors, and carried off the women and children, with everything else he could lay hands on. Of course Amalatok made reprisals; attacked a small island belonging to Grabantak, and did as much general mischief as he could. The paltry islet about which the war began was not worthy either of attack or defence!

Then Amalatok, burning with the righteous indignation of the man who did not begin the quarrel, got up a grand muster of his forces, and went with a great fleet of kayaks to attack Grabantak in his strongholds.

1. What happened while the hunting party was away?
2. Who started it?
3. How could his character be described?
4. Whose territory did he invade?
5. The mainland?
6. How many people were in the hunting party?
7. Where did they go?
8. How did they get to their destintion?
9. Was it wooden?
10. What was it constructed out of?
11. Was there a cook in the group?
12. What was the cook's name
13. What the cook a large person?
14. Why did they bring him?
15. Was there a lot of food stored in their village?
16. Of every variety?
17. What food had they not gotten recently?
18. Who offered to kill one?
19. Whom had they already put ashore?
20. How long had it been since they had gotten a walrus?
21. How did Benjy start his journey?
22. What did he bring with him?

Provide a numbered list of answers.
1. The war with the northern Eskimos commenced
2. Grabantak
3. Insatiable
4. Amalatok's
5. No
6. four
7. The large lake of Paradise Isle.
8. By boat
9. No
10. Rubber
11. Yes
12. Oblooria
13. No
14. They disliked cooking when they were ravenous
15. Yes?
16. No
17. Walrus
18. Leo
19. Benjy
20. Some weeks
21. By water-tramp
22. A gun