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One of these was closely followed up by Anteek, who had very cleverly launched his harpoon. Aglootook was also seen to be struggling with a buoy, which he was trying to haul in. "Keep off!" he cried in great excitement when old Mangivik paddled to his assistance; "I have lanced it twice. I need no help. See, the water is full of blood!"
Later on in the evening, while Nazinred was enjoying his pipe, and the Eskimos were looking on in unspeakable admiration, Cheenbuk remembered that the last time he quitted the ship he had left his spear behind him. "I'll go and fetch it," said Anteek, who possessed that amiable and utterly delightful nature which offers to oblige, or do a service, without waiting to be asked.
"That is hard work," observed Nazinred to Cheenbuk, as they stood watching the cutting up and packing of their prize on the sledges, "and takes a long time." "Come, now, let my father show us what the the pass pass-gi spouter gun can do," said Cheenbuk, pointing to his sledge, which Anteek had got ready. "There are more walruses yonder."
At the same moment Anteek went off into an explosion of laughter, which he accounted for by pointing at a baby-walrus which had just put its head out of the water with an expression of surprise on its innocent face that clearly indicated its inability to understand what was going on.
A slight effort to exert himself was observable in the Indian, and then, getting him on his feet, Cheenbuk on one side and Anteek on the other, they forced him to stagger about until vitality began to revive. "Now, boy, we'll get him into the sledge, and away back to the igloes." Without delay they led Nazinred to the sledge, rolled him in a large white bearskin, and tied him on.
One object, however, defied the brain-power alike of Indian and Eskimo; and no wonder, for it was a wooden leg, discovered by Anteek in what must have been the doctor's cabin or a cabin which had been used for doctor's stuff and material.
We mightn't be able to do the anteek Spanish Squire, but we've got our own line of business, and it's a comfortable one." To have this said to him under the roof of Mrs. Peyton, from whom, in his sensitiveness, he had thus far jealously guarded his own secret, was even more than Clarence's gentleness could stand, and fixed his wavering resolution.
Among other things, they found in a small room which had been used as a blacksmith's forge, large quantities of hoop, bar, and rod-iron. While Cheenbuk and Oolalik were rejoicing over this find, Anteek rushed in upon them in a state of considerable excitement with something in his hand. It was a large watch of the double-cased "warming-pan" tribe.
But they did succeed in filling most of their hearts with an unconquerable desire to go and see for themselves, so that no difficulty was experienced in persuading the whole tribe men, women, children, and dogs to consent to a general migration. Even Anteek held his court that night in the tent of old Uleeta. Since the death of Gartok Anteek had shown much sympathy with that poor old woman.
"`Why should we fight? said he. "`That was just in my thought, said I. "So we stood up, and he took hold of my hand in the way that the white traders do, and squeezed it. I will show you how. Give me your hand, Anteek no, the other one."
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