They were doing the screaming now! Every one in the village heard
the screams and came running down to the beach, too.

When Menie saw his father coming with the kyak, he wasn't afraid
any more, for he was sure his father would save him. He wasn't
even afraid about the cakes of ice that were floating in the
water, though there is nothing more dangerous than to go out in a
kyak among ice floes. One bump from a floating cake of ice is
enough to upset any boat, and I don't like to think of what might
happen if a kyak should get between two big cakes of ice.

Kesshoo ran with his kyak as far as he could on the ice. Then he
got in and fitted the bottom of his skin jacket over the kyak
hole and carefully slid himself into the open water.

Once in the water, how his paddle flew!

It seemed to Menie as if his father would never reach him! He sat
very still on the ice pan with the dead seal beside him, and Nip
and Tup huddled up against him.

At last Kesshoo came near enough so he could make Menie hear
everything he said. "Menie," he cried, "if you do exactly what I
tell you to, I can save you.

"I will throw you my harpoon. You must drive it way down into the
ice. Then by the harpoon line I will tow your ice pan back toward
shore. When we get to the big ice I will find a place for you to
land.