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"Listen!" exclaimed the boy, holding it up to Cheenbuk's ear, and giving it a shake; "it speaks." "What is it?" murmured the Eskimo. "I don't know, but it does not like shaking, for it only speaks a little when I shake it. I tried squeezing, but it does not care for that." Here again Nazinred's superior knowledge came into play, though to a limited extent.
Cheenbuk's plan was afterwards fully carried out. On the return of the party with all their wonderful news and wealth of old iron, the greatest excitement prevailed in the tribe, and the persons composing the expedition became heroes and heroines for the time being. Each member formed a centre of attraction and a subject of cross-examination to its own particular relatives and friends.
Then we will drive to the place where we have left our kayaks and oomiaks, some of us will go to Waruskeek, and some to pay a visit to the Fire-spouters at Whale River. Give me another lump, Nootka. The last was a little one, and I am hungry." The grandeur of Cheenbuk's plan, as compared with Aglootook's suggestion, was so great that the poor magician collapsed. Anteek looked at him.
"Hoi!" exclaimed some of the young men, with looks of surprise at such promptitude. We may observe here that in those regions the sun in summer describes nearly an unbroken circle in the sky, and that Cheenbuk's reference was to the next two days. "I will take with me as many men and women as choose to go, but no children.
With active spring Anteek went close in and delivered his thrust. The bear uttered a savage roar and at once turned on him. Just at the moment the boy's foot slipped and he fell close to the animal's feet. In the same instant the two men sprang forward. Cheenbuk's spear entered the bear's heart, and that of Gartok struck its breast. But the thrust of the latter was feeble.
I will watch him till morning: after that he will need no more watching." Alizay looked sharply at the Eskimo while he uttered these words, perhaps to ascertain whether he understood their drift, but Cheenbuk's visage was immovable, and his eyes were fixed, as if in meditation, on the moon, which just then was beginning to rise over the cliffs and shed a softened light over the Indian village.
There was a tendency to approve of this solution, and the boy, tying two of the straps under his chin, sprang up, in the pride of his discovery. But his pride had a fall, for the leap thrust the leg through the snow roof of the hut, and the novel head-dress was wrenched off as he staggered back into Cheenbuk's arms.
Cheenbuk's mind must assuredly have been influenced by a good spirit when, after descending the little river at the utmost speed possible so as to render recapture for a time at least improbable he directed his companion to run the canoe on the bank in an eddy formed by a flat rock, and then, against his own most earnest desires, advised Adolay to return to her people.
"Yes. I know him well. He loves truth, and he will do what he says." "It is a long time till the open water comes. Will the young Eskimo's mind not change?" "Cheenbuk's mind will not change. He loves Adolay better than himself." Nazinred pondered this statement for some time in silence, caressing the sleek head of Attim as he did so.
He passed the loop deftly round Cheenbuk's legs and drew it tight, while the others were still trying vainly to compress his bull-neck. The moment that Cheenbuk felt the noose tighten on his legs he knew that it was all over with him. To run or fight with his legs tied would be impossible, so, like a true philosopher, he submitted to the inevitable and gave in.
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