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Updated: May 31, 2025
The children took prompt advantage of the occasion to enjoy by far the wildest game that had ever yet been suggested to their imaginations, and Aglootook the magician, seeing that something had come at last to verify his predictions, stood by the capstan and appointed himself to the command of the upper deck brigade, while the others were battling with the flames below.
His words are like a lamp with a very bad wick: it makes too much smoke, and confuses everything near it." "Aglootook is right," said Cheenbuk, who resolved to end the dispute at this point, "many words are like the smoke of a bad lamp: they confuse, especially when they are not well-understood, but the Fire-spouters confuse themselves with real smoke as well as with words.
He was particularly strong on Aglootook, and whatever that wily magician gained in the esteem of the adults, he certainly lost among the juveniles. So eager were the Eskimos to see the wonderful sights that had been described to them, that they at once set about preparation for departure.
"Aglootook is wise," said Cheenbuk, with gravity and a glance at Anteek; "I will act on his advice, but first I must take just a little run to the left, to find out something that I see there." Anteek was not naturally rude, but there was a sensation in him at that moment which induced him to turn his back on the magician and become absorbed in the contemplation of a neighbouring berg.
When the whole party was assembled on a large floe, cutting up and stowing away the meat, some of the younger men began to comment on the success of the hunt, and to congratulate themselves on the large supply of fresh provisions which they had secured. "Did I not tell you," said Aglootook, who appeared to be superintending the workers, "that wonders would be done to-day?"
Now, I have promised this girl that I will get a large party of our young men to go back with her to Whale River and give her back to her father and mother." At this there were strong murmurs of dissent, and a man whom we have not yet introduced to the reader lifted up his voice. This man's name was Aglootook.
"But does any one think they will believe that?" said Aglootook with something of scorn in his looks and tone. "Will the Fire-spouters not accept the girl and roast Cheenbuk, and then meet us with their spouters and kill many of us, even though we should beat them at last?" "It is my opinion there is something in that," remarked Mangivik.
In the igloe of Aglootook was assembled, perhaps, one of the most surprised, if not one of the most credulous, of the gatherings for the magician had a strong hold on the imagination of the greater number of his tribe, and a wonderful power of oratory.
Suffice it to say that when they reached the spot, and were introduced to the white man's "Big kayak," they felt disposed to echo the words of the Queen of Sheba, and exclaim that half had not been told them not even although that huge humbug Aglootook had told them a great deal too much! New circumstances are apt to engender new conditions in savage as well as civilised life.
Old Uleeta was the captain of another of the oomiaks, and it was observed that Aglootook cast longing and frequent glances in her direction, believing, no doubt, that a place by her side would be an easier berth than in his own kayak, with nothing but the strength of his own lazy arm to urge it on; but as there was no guest in this case to justify the breach of ancient custom on the ground of hospitality, he felt that manhood required him to stay where he was.
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