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Perhaps the interpreter could not explain. He is not a smart man, that interpreter. He resembles a walrus with his brain scooped out. He spoke much, but I could not understand." "Could not understand?" repeated Toolooha, with an incredulous look, "let not Chingatok say so. Is there anything that passes the lips of man which he cannot understand?"
Chingatok did not appear to be shocked by the old man's plain speaking, but he did not agree with him. "No, father," said he, after a pause. "Blackbeard is not a liar. He is good and wise, and speaks the truth. I have seen the Kablunets do it myself. In the big oomiak that they lost, some of the men did it, so puff, pull, puff, puff is it not funny?"
Chingatok gave the signal to advance, and, a few minutes later, those warriors of the north those fierce savages who, probably for centuries, had been sworn hereditary foes were seated round the igloe-lamps, amicably smearing their fingers and faces with fat, as they feasted together on chops of the walrus and cutlets of the polar bear.
It is full of wonder like the stars; like the jumping flames; like the sun and moon, which we cannot understand." Chingatok paused and looked upwards with a solemn expression.
"Yes, Massa Benjy, bery too much altogidder," said Butterface, echoing the sigh. "Come, we won't cut through this," cried Captain Vane in a cheery voice; "we'll try to go over it. There is a considerable drift of old snow that seems to offer a sort of track. What says Chingatok?" The easy-going Eskimo said that it would be as well to go over it as through it, perhaps better!
"Ask Chingatok what he thinks," returned the Captain. Chingatok's opinion was that the water-sky indicated the open sea. He knew that sea well had often paddled over it, and his own country lay in it. "But how ever did he cross that ice?" asked the Captain; "what says he to that, Anders?" "I did not cross it," answered the Eskimo, through Anders.
"May it not be that Leo has influenced them peacefully, my father?" suggested Chingatok. "Not so, my son," said the chief savagely. "Grabantak was always sly as a white fox, fierce as a walrus, mean as a wolf, greedy as a black gull, contemptible as " The catalogue of Grabantak's vices was cut short by the voice of Teyma coming loud and strong over the sea.
Captain Vane was speaking. "Yes, Chingatok," he said, looking up at the tall savage, who stood erect in frame but with bent head and his hands clasped before him, like a modest chief, which in truth he was.
"I understand you well enough, Chingatok; go on, and let me know why the old man does not think well of me." "He thinks you are a fool," returned the plain spoken Eskimo. "H'm! I'm not altogether surprised at that, lad. I've sometimes thought so myself. Well, I suppose you've come to give me some good advice to make me wiser eh! Chingatok?" "Yes, that is what I come for.
"Have these men got wives?" asked the chief. "The old one has, and Bunjay is his son. The other ones no. The black man may have a wife: I know not, but I should think that no woman would have him." "What made him black?" "I know not." "Was he always black?" "The Kablunets say he was from so big." Chingatok measured off the half of his left hand by way of explaining how big.
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