Then the dogs were caught and harnessed, and in great excitement began to strain at the traces and howl their eagerness to be off. _Oksunaes_ were shouted to Abel and Mrs. Abel, and Bobby, grasping the front of one _komatik_, and Skipper Ed the front of the other, they pulled them sharply to one side to break them loose, shouting to the teams as they did so: "_Hu-it! Hu-it!_" Then they flung themselves upon the _komatiks_, and away they dashed, down the steep and slippery incline, and off through the shore hummocks at a wild, mad gallop.