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Updated: June 2, 2025
"Having learned something of their language from Eatum, as I told you before, we contrived to make them understand, with the aid of a great many signs, how the ship had been wrecked, and how we got first to the ice and then to the land, for this they were most curious about, and they were greatly puzzled to know how we came to be there at all.
Him they finally called Aupadleit, which means 'Little Red-head, though the Dean's hair was not exactly red, but very bright, and the savages admired it very much; so the Dean, to humor them, cut off great locks of it, and gave it to them all round. "I took a great interest in Eatum's children, and this further inclined Mr. and Mrs. Eatum to have a good opinion of me.
"But not many days afterward, the weather being fine, we went out upon the sea a great way, and were rejoiced to come across a bear's track, which Eatum said was very fresh. No sooner had the dogs seen it than away they started upon it; and over the ice and snow rough and smooth, right upon the track they ran as fast as they could go.
When all was ready, Eatum came to me, and said, 'Ketchum awak, ketchum pussay, you go? meaning, would we go with them, and catch walrus and seals. Of course we said 'yes, and off we started at a wild pace; the Dean riding with Kossuit, while I rode with Eatum.
After this they treated us quite affectionately, patting us on the back, and exclaiming, Tyma, tyma, which we knew to mean 'Good, good, as Eatum had told us. Then Eatum wanted to show himself off in our language, and, pointing to us, he said, 'Hunter plenty good, plenty eat get.
"When the storm broke, we left the snow hut, and set out for the island; catching two seals by the way, and in the very same manner, too, that the Dean and I had done long before we ever knew there was such a person as Eatum in the world. We were much disappointed at not discovering any bears, and so were the dogs.
He amused us very much with his frequent repetition of it, and with the enormous quantities of food he took into his stomach after he did repeat it; for he only had to say, 'Me eatum' to get as much food as he wanted. It soon got to be quite a joke with us, and when he said, 'Me eatum' we all three fell, not only to feeding, but to laughing besides.
These dogs were very large and strong animals; and the seven could draw a very heavy load, I should think that the whole seven could draw as much as a small horse. "Eatum seemed to have been quite exhausted with long hunting when he came to us, and he did very little but eat and sleep for several days.
"Our guests did not leave off eating until each had consumed a quantity of food equal at least to the size of his head; and then they grew drowsy, and wanted to singikpok, which we knew from Eatum meant sleep; and in singikpok we were glad enough to indulge them, although greatly to our inconvenience, for they nearly filled our hut.
Pomp wish dat, but lil 'gator, see um come on, cock um tail up and go right to de bottom. Oh, oh, Mass' George, I so dreffle hungry. Feel as if um eatum own fader."
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