Kakaik pointed out one fine deer, and paddled towards it.  I might have shot the animal, but my Indian companion made signs to me to use a spear which lay at the bottom of the canoe; so, standing up, I grasped the weapon with both my hands, and drove it with all my force into the creature's skull.  In an instant its head went down, and its feet rising, it lay dead on the surface.  Kakaik handed me a rope to cast round its antlers, and we forthwith towed it in triumph to the shore. This done, we made chase after a second deer, which was swimming across the lake towards a spot some little way off.  Greatly to my satisfaction, I succeeded in striking this animal as I had done the first.