With the small hours of the night came a cold so intense that he wasdriven to sleep in the cabin where reigned the small iron stove thatbrewed the skipper's odorous pot. After he had slept a good way into thenext day, he came up again to find the gale still strong and theprospect coloured now with green of wave and snow of foam, blue of skyand snow of winged cloud.[Pg 86] The favourable force was still pushing themonward toward the invisible north star.
Colonies of Arctic gulls harboured on the island, and the herring gullsremained through the winter; these, where he could get near their rocksupon the ice, he at first took delight in shooting; but he soon lost thezest for this sport, for the birds gave themselves to his gun tooeasily. He was capable of deriving pleasure from them other than intheir slaughter, and often he rode under their rocky homes, noting howdark their white plumage looked against their white resting-places,where groups of them huddled together upon the icy battlements andsnowdrift towers of the castles that the frost had built them. He wouldride by slowly, and shoot his gun in the air to see them rise and wheelupward, appearing snow-white against the blue firmament; and watchedthem sink again, growing dark as they alighted among the snow and ice.His warning that he himself must be nearing home was to see the returnof such members of the bird-colony as had been out for the deep-seafishing. When he saw them come from afar, flying high, often with theirwings dyed pink in the sunset rays, he knew that his horse must gallophomeward, or darkness might come and hide such cracks and fissures inthe ice as were dangerous.
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