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About the improvised stakes which secured the sled Ootah whipped the lashings, then he passed them under and over the sled until it was securely pinioned. Very gently he placed Annadoah upon the mass of walrus meat and lashed her body in turn to the sled and about the stakes. With Maisanguaq's assistance he tied the cowering dogs to the harpoons.
Annadoah felt that instinctive fear which humanity has felt from the beginning the superstitious terror of tribes who confront extinction, in the face of famine; the quiet white tremor of the hard working hordes of modern cities in the face of poverty and starvation; the dread of savage and civilized races alike of the incomprehensible factor in the universe which wreaks destruction, that original and ultimate evil which all the world's religions recognize, interpret, and offer to placate the force that is hostile to man and the happiness of man.
Each time they made swift, sickening descents in the seething troughs he felt all consciousness pass away. On all sides the waves hissed. Torrents of water swept over the floe. Ootah felt his limbs freezing; he felt his arms becoming numb. He feared that at any moment he should lose his grip and be swept into the raging sea. Then he thought of Annadoah and conjured new courage.
From the sheer precipitous receding face of the cliff, knife-like granite spars projected, and in the crevices and nooks of these countless birds nested. Hungry, desirous, insatiate the voice of that fearful and balefully luring world there sounded eternally the roar and crash of the breaking golden waves. Over the uneven scraggy promontory, blinded by the fierce sunlight, Annadoah staggered.
Even as the ravens in their winter shelter dream of the summer sun, so my soul grows warm, in all my loneliness, in the memory of Olafaksoah." Ootah groaned with an access of misery. Frenziedly he caught her hands and pressed them. Annadoah struggled. His words beat hotly in her ears: "But I want thee. My blood burns at the thought of thee.
But thou what reason hast thou to desire his death?" "Ootah findeth favor with Annadoah," said Maisanguaq briefly. "Yea, and she shall not. She shall not!" the old man shrieked in a sudden access of rage. "So saith Sipsu, whose spirits never fail." Lying on the floor Sipsu closed his eyes and, moving his head up and down, called repeatedly: "Quilaka Nauk! Quilaka Nauk! Where are my spirits?
Her lips framed an inaudible word: "Olafaksoah . . . Olafaksoah . . ." She opened her eyes. The smile faded. "Thou . . . ?" she said. "Yea, Annadoah, I have brought thee food," Ootah said. It was his last. "I hunger," she breathed. "It is very cold . . . I was in the south . . . where the sun is warm . . . it is very cold here." Eagerly he pressed her hands.
"And Annadoah looks with favor upon thee I have seen it in her eyes. Did she not greet thee as women greet their lovers when thou camest from the mountains, and did she not bind thy wounds with strange ointment?" "She thought of another her heart was in the south." "Hath she not sought thee hither upon the ice when the women fell upon her with their curses?
He heard Olafaksoah as he entered Annadoah's tent laughing heartily. The thought of Annadoah in the embrace of the big blond man, of her face pressed to his in the white men's strange kiss of abomination, aroused in Ootah a sense of violation, an instinctive repugnance akin to the horror a native feels for the dead.
In her igloo Annadoah lay alone for with spring the time of her trial had come. In the customary preparations for the coming of Annadoah's unborn child Ootah had entered with rare tenderness and solicitude.
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