Great Bear Wilderness We get to carry each other

"No, no - he did not lose the leg. The bones just grew the wrong way and it always stayed a bit crooked. But he was an excellent hunter and tracker," Osprey had learned quite a lot from the old Pete and had been very sad the day he had passed away. 
 
"Well, you don't need a whale to explode - any carcass can, if it stays unopened in the sun long enough," she countered Burke's argument. Though she had not seen this happen, again there were stories and there was no reason not to believe them. "I mean, you have seen, how the bellies of the corpses swell after a while - that is the dangerous moment, when you should not make a direct bite," unless you wanted your face covered in rotting guts.