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He then turned to the Angekok, Aweinak, who was a reputed murderer, and said, "Hear these my words, 'Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed. Forgive one another, and live as brethren and sisters in love and fellowship; make no difference between your own countrymen and those of the north and south."
The greater part of the other Esquimaux thought the voyage impracticable, and an old Angekok predicted that if the adventurers did not perish in the violent currents that set in round Cape Chudleigh, they most certainly would never return. But none of these dark forebodings made any impression on the mind of Jonathan.
"Silence! weak-minded puffin!" thundered the wizard, to the great astonishment of a seal which came up at that moment to breathe, and prudently retired in time to save its life. Once again the angekok with a mighty effort restrained his wrath, and after a time resumed
Wishing the latter all success, we will follow the fortunes of Angut, the eccentric angekok. Had you and I, reader, been obliged to follow him in the body, we should soon have been left far behind; fortunately, spirit is more powerful and fleet than matter! Without rest or halt, the stalwart Eskimo journeyed over the ice until he reached the residence of Okiok.
There was a quiet matter-of-course tone of command about the seaman, which completely overawed the poor angekok, inducing him to submit at once to the implied superiority, though hitherto accustomed to carry matters with a high hand among his compatriots.
"Ippegoo," he said solemnly and very slowly, "I am not your torngak. I am an angekok, and as I chanced to be passing by your hut in my wanderings, I stopped to hear. I have heard enough to be able to tell you that you shall never be an angekok. Nor shall you ever have a torngak. You do not need one. You are wise enough already, much wiser than your master, who is no better than a miserable puffin.
My torngak had told me to go out on the ice, far over the sea in a certain direction where I should find a great berg with many white peaks mounting up to the very sky. There, he said, I should find what I was to do. It was blowing hard at the time; also snowing and freezing. I did not wish to go, but an angekok must go forward and fear nothing when his torngak points the way. Therefore I went."
Glad am I that I am not an angekok, for it would be very difficult work for a stupid man, enough almost to kill him!" "You are right. It is difficult and hard work. So you see the torngak told me go feast with Okiok, and at his bidding of course I have come, on purpose to do so." "That's a lie. You came to see my Nunaga, and you hope to get her; but you never will!" said Okiok.
"She said to me, 'I jump down, I jump down from my place on the snow," cried Kotuko, with hollow eyes, leaning forward in the half-lighted hut. "She said, 'I will be a guide. She said, 'I will guide you to the good seal-holes. To-morrow I go out, and the tornaq will guide me." Then the angekok, the village sorcerer, came in, and Kotuko told him the tale a second time.
I forgot you don't know what an ass is; well, it don't matter, for, in the third place, he never gave any proof to anybody of what he and his torngak are said to have seen and done, and, strongest reason of all, this familiar spirit of his acts unwisely for what could be more foolish than to choose out of all the tribe a poor half-witted creature like Ippegoo for the next angekok?"
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