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"I know it, master; but can you not make me more wise by teaching me?" "Some people are hard to teach," said Ujarak. "That is also true," returned the youth mournfully. "I know that you can never make me an angekok. Perhaps it would be better not to try." "No. You are mistaken," said the wizard in a more cheerful tone, for he felt that he had gone too far.
Among their visitors was Kingminguse, who had formerly been an Angekok, but who, by the preaching of the word of God, had experienced such an apparent change of mind as to give hopes of his conversion; and, indeed, early next year, on the 19th of February, the day on which the meeting-hall at Nain was consecrated, he was baptized as the first fruits of that mission, and received the name of Peter.
We have starved much for some moons; let us now feast, and grow fat and strong." "Huk!" exclaimed the auditors, who had been touched on their weakest point. "But Angut has not yet uttered his mind," said the jovial Simek, turning with a bland expression to the man in question; "he is an angekok, though he will not admit it. Has not his familiar spirit said anything to him?"
"I'm glad to hear you speak well of her," said Rooney, "for I don't like to think ill of any one if I can help it; but sometimes I can't help it. Now, there's your angekok Ujarak: I cannot think well of him. Have you a good word to say in his favour?" "No, not one. He is bad through and through from the skin to the bone.
Then he spoke to a floating congregation, simply as if they were children, and, as with Him whose message he bore, "the people heard him gladly." They took him to their sick, and asked him to breathe upon them, which he did to humor them, until he found out that it was an Angekok practice, whereupon he refused.
An explosion of laughter from everybody showed that the little joke was appreciated; but Okiok became suddenly grave, and sobered his family instantly, as he turned to Rooney and said "I wish that Angut had been there. He would have saved your big oomiak and all the men." "Indeed. Is he then such a powerful angekok?" "Yes; very, very powerful. There never was an angekok like him."
Everybody was full and sleepy, so no one contradicted; and the angekok, by virtue of his office, helped himself to yet another lump of boiled meat, and lay down to sleep with the others in the warm, well-lighted, oil-smelling home. Now Kotuko, who drew very well in the Inuit fashion, scratched pictures of all these adventures on a long, flat piece of ivory with a hole at one end.
All the lights were now extinguished, for no one is allowed to witness the interview of the unfinished angekok with the torngak, nor to move a finger for fear of disturbing him. The room being now in the state which is described as darkness just visible, Ippegoo began to sing a song, in which all joined.
In great perplexity he sought out his poor victim Ippegoo with something of the feeling, no doubt, that induces a drowning man to clutch at a straw and silently walked with him to a secluded spot near the neighbouring cliffs. "Ippegoo," he said, turning round abruptly; "it is certain that you will never be an angekok." "I don't want to be one," returned the simpleton quietly.
He was an Angekok, one of the native medicine-men of whom presently Egede was to know much more. As he stood upon the deck and looked at these strangers for whose salvation he had risked all, his heart fell. They were not the stalwart Northmen he had looked for, and their jargon had no homelike sound.
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