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We know not her maiden name, but as her dead husband had been called by the same name as the son, we will style her Mrs Ippegoo. There was also the mother of Arbalik, a youth who was celebrated as a wonderful killer of birds on the wing a sort of Eskimo Robin Hood with the small spear or dart. The mother of Arbalik was elderly, and stern for an Eskimo. She was sister to the great hunter Simek.
It was a shouting and yelling, mingled with the snapping of whips and the howls and barkings of dogs. "Bless my handkerchief!" cried Mr. Damon. "What's that?" They all saw a moment later. Approaching over the frozen snow were several Eskimo sledges, drawn by dog teams, and the native drivers were shouting and cracking their whips of walrus hide. "The natives are coming to attack us!" cried Ned.
"How could an Eskimo get out here on the floe?" asked Edward, as they set out toward Bobby. "We're a long way from land." "I don't know," said his companion. "We'll soon learn. But Eskimo hunters go a long way after seals, and he's probably on a hunting expedition."
Still he listened for the bells on the malemutes, and the calls of his Eskimo drivers. They did not come. Nothing but snow, and the shriek of that storm king whose rage he had so recently encountered while drifting to sea on the ice floe, and from whom only cruelty was ever expected, now whistled in his ears.
Since a modern Eskimo skull has been shown by a distinguished scientist to have the same appearance and peculiarities as the Heidelberg jaw, it is easy to believe that this jaw can be duplicated in many graveyards. Greater abnormalities, in great numbers, can be found in the skeletons of modern man.
And one day, after having been cooped up in his box for a long time, so, at least, it seemed to him, the Plush Bear's eyes were suddenly dazzled by a flash of light. "I wonder if I am back at the North Pole," he thought. "Has that Eskimo boy caught me again, and is he taking me to his igloo? Are these Northern Lights that flash in front of me?"
A little thread, calico, tea, tobacco, and a few glass beads were given in exchange for the soft and shining skins which in civilized centers would sell for a fabulous sum. The storm continued. The traders remained for days. When they left the igloo the heart of the Eskimo maiden was no longer her own; she had given it to another who would presently return and take her to his cabin.
"Of course you're going back for her?" The other stared for a moment into Pelliter's flushed face, and then laughed as though he had just heard a good joke. "Not on your life, my boy. I wouldn't hike that thirty miles again an' thirty back for all the Eskimo women up at Wagner." The red in Pelliter's eyes grew redder as he leaned over the table. "See here," he said, "you're going back now!
Taking up a hand-saw he seized a piece of stick, and, although not an expert, sawed a lump off the end of it in a few seconds. As this would probably have cost an Eskimo full half an hour to accomplish with his blunt knives, they were suitably impressed, and Cheenbuk, seizing the saw, forthwith attempted to cut off the end of a rod of iron with what effect it is scarcely necessary to explain.
However that may be, the pictures did not disturb Estella as to the miners they were accustomed to these and many other sights. Something far worse to her troubled the Eskimo. It was hunger. Suddenly one of the loungers, considerably younger that the others, said to his neighbors: "I'll bet she's hungry." "Very likely, Sam, they mostly always are. There's nothin' here to eat if she is, by George."
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