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Updated: June 9, 2025
Then how everybody ran! Koko's mother had her baby in her hood, where Eskimo mothers always carry their babies. She could not run so fast as the others. The Angakok was fat, so he could not keep up, but he waddled along as fast as he could. "Hurry, hurry," he called to his wives. "Bespeak one of his hind legs for me."
A long discussion followed this harangue in which all the men took part with the exception of Tuavituk, who as Angakok reserved his opinion until it should be called for in a professional way; and all agreed with the first speaker save Akonuk and Matuk, who, being visitors, spoke last.
The dogs barked and raced up and down the beach, the babies crowed, and the children shouted for joy. Even the grown people were gay. They talked in loud tones and laughed and made jokes. At last Kesshoo shouted, "All ready! In you go!" He told each person where to sit. He put the Angakok in one boat to steer. He put Koko's father in the other.
The women got out their cooking pots, and Koolee set to work to make a fireplace out of three stones. They had blubber and moss with them, but how could they get a fire? They had no matches. They had never even heard of a match. The Angakok sat down on the beach. He had some little pieces of dry driftwood and some dried moss.
At the same moment the two wives gave a great push behind, and the next moment after that, there was the Angakok, still red, and still angry, sitting on the edge of the sleeping bench in the best place near the fire! Then his two wives came crawling through. The Angakok looked at them as if he thought they had made him stick in the tunnel, and had done it on purpose, too.
There was so much to eat that everybody grew fatter, and as for the Angakok, he got so very fat that Koko said to Menie, "I don't believe we can ever get the Angakok home in the woman-boat! He's so heavy he'll sink it! I think it would be a good plan to tie a string to him and tow him back like a walrus!" "Yes," said Menie. "Maybe he would shrink some if we soaked him well.
The Angakok lay down on the sand in the sunshine with his hands over his stomach and was soon asleep, too. The men sat in a little group near by, and Menie and Koko lay on their stomachs beside Kesshoo. The women had gone a little farther up the beach.
Her baby was in her hood, and when she backed, the baby's head was bumped on the roof of the tunnel. The baby began to roar. In the tunnel it sounded like a clap of thunder. The wives of the Angakok and Koko's mother all began to talk at once, and with that and the baby's crying I suppose there never was a tunnel that held so much noise. It all came into the igloo, and it sounded quite frightful.
The Angakok was silent for a moment. Then he spoke again in a natural voice. "When I opened my eyes in my own igloo again," he said, "the famine was already over. Flocks of sea-birds were flying overhead. The sea swarmed with fish, and with walrus and seal. Every one along the whole coast was happy. Ask yourselves is it not so?"
"That is well," the Angakok said to the twins, when Koolee had finished. "Your grandfather will be pleased with your presents, I know. Your grandfather was a just man. I knew him well. He always paid great respect to me. Whenever he brought a bear home he gave me not only a hind leg, but the liver as well!
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