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Not the meat, lad, not the meat; everything else before that. So. Mind your helm, Chingatok; she'll steer wildish when lightened." Captain Vane was right. When Alf had tumbled some of the heavier portions of lading off the sledge, it burst away like a wild-horse let go free, rendering it difficult at first for Chingatok to steady it.
This speech was received with marks of decided approval by those of the party who were in the habit of siding with Eemerk, but the rest were silent. In a few moments Chingatok said, in a low, quiet, but impressive tone: "The Kablunets are not foolish or ignorant. They are wise far beyond the wisdom of the Eskimos. It is Eemerk who is like a walrus without brains.
Chingatok caught her by the wrist, held up a finger as if to impose silence, smiled brightly, and listened. Again the shriek was repeated with prolonged power. "Tell me, my son," gasped Toolooha, "is Oblooria are the people safe? Why came you to me alone?" "The little sister and the people are safe. I came alone to prevent your being taken by surprise. Did I not say that it could shriek and yell?
This argument seemed unanswerable. At all events the old man did not answer it, but sat frowning at the cooking-lamp under the influence of intense thought. After a prolonged meditation during the course of which father and son each consumed the tit-bits of a walrus rib and a seal's flipper Chingatok remarked that the white men were totally beyond his comprehension.
The heads of seals were also observed here and there. "These will stop us at last," said Alf, pointing to the bergs with a profound sigh. "No, they won't," remarked the Captain quietly. "Nothing will stop us!" "That's true, anyhow, uncle," returned Alf; "for if it be, as Chingatok thinks, that we are in search of nothing, of course when we find nothing, nothing will stop us!"
Chingatok looked with penetrating gaze at Anders while he translated, and, considering the nature of the communication, the so-called Brainless One proved himself a better man than the giant gave him credit for. "Does Blackbeard," asked Chingatok, after a few seconds' thought, "expect to find this Nothing this Nort Pole, in my country?"
Must come back." "He speaks in riddles, Anders. What does he mean by the three days of hard work coming to an end?" "I mean," said Chingatok, "that the ice was loose when I came to this island. It is now closed. The white men must toil, toil, toil very slow over the ice for three days, then they will come to smooth ice, where the dogs may run for three days.
"Well, what about that?" asked Leo, as his companion paused. "Could not my friend," replied Chingatok, "change some of the words of his book into the language of the Eskimo and mark them down?" Leo at once jumped at the idea. Afterwards he spoke to Alf about it, and the two set to work to translate some of the most important passages of Scripture, and write them down in the syllable alphabet.
It is not possible to search for nothing at least it is not possible to find it." "But that is what they come here for," persisted Chingatok; "they call it the Nort Pole." "And what is the Nort Pole, my son?" "It is nothing, father." The old man looked at his stately son with something of anxiety mingled with his surprise.
An expedition was planned to Great Isle, not now for the purpose of consulting Makitok, the oracle, as to the best time for going to war, but to gratify the wishes of Captain Vane, who had the strongest reason for believing that he was in the immediate neighbourhood of the Pole. "Blackbeard says he must be very near nothing now," observed Chingatok to Anders the day after their arrival.
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