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Given an igloo, a boat, fishing and hunting tackle, and they were happy and satisfied; but the white man should be taught to let the wives of the Eskimos alone, and that, too, right early. All this, and a great deal more, passed through the mind of the shaman. On the evening of the third day after the arrival of the miners, while all sat smoking before the fire, Kuiktuk decided to act.
"Well, then," resumed Rooney, jotting down the figure 5, "there you have it five. Any boy at school could tell you what that is." The Eskimo pondered deeply and stared. The other Eskimos did the same. "But what," asked Okiok, "if a boy should say that it was six, and not five?" "Why, then we'd whack him, and he'd never say that again."
His kayak, too, with its sharp form, was of better build and material for making headway than the light Indian canoes propelled as it was with the long double-bladed paddle in the strong hands of one of the stoutest of the Eskimos. He shot down the stream at a rate which soon began to leave the Indians behind.
At the centre and lowest part of the valley, Makitok, or rather Makitok's forefathers, had built their dwelling. It was a hut, resembling the huts of the Eskimos. No other hut was to be seen. The angekok loved solitude. Beside the hut there stood a small truncated cone about fifteen feet high, on the summit of which sat an old white-bearded man, who intently watched the approaching travellers.
"Behold Makitok!" said Teyma as they drew near. The old man did not move. He appeared to be over eighty years of age, and, unlike Eskimos in general, had a bushy snow-white beard. The thin hair on his head was also white, and his features were good.
Indeed there were times when the flash of his honest smile made Johnny believe that they had met somewhere in America. On his trip to Nome and Fairbanks before the war, Johnny had met many Eskimos, and had boxed and wrestled with some of the best of them. "Oh, well," he sighed, and stretched himself, "'tain't that I've got a string on 'em, nor them on me.
Then, filled with the bitterness of a vain quest, Hearne turned his face towards the south to commence his long march to the settlements. Up to this point nothing had been seen of the supposed mountains of copper which formed the principal goal of Hearne's undertaking. The eagerness of the Indians had led them to hasten directly to the camp of the Eskimos regardless of all else.
"Oh! he is one of your wise men, is he?" returned Rooney, with an involuntary shrug of his shoulders, for he had heard and seen enough during his residence at the settlements to convince him that the angekoks, or sorcerers, or wise men of the Eskimos, were mostly a set of clever charlatans, like the medicine-men of the North American Indians, who practised on the credulity and superstition of their fellow-men in order to gain their own ends.
In May, 1913, that well-known northern patrol man, Sergeant W. G. Edgenton, of the Mounted Police, who was in command of the post at Fullerton, reported that a rumour had come to him through Eskimo that Radford and Street had been killed by the Eskimos in June, 1912.
It had been repaired by that time, and the deck was easily gained. Descending to a part of the interior which was rather dark for the boy was aware that his deeds were evil he sat down on a locker and opened his fire-bag. Eskimos are not quite free from superstition. Doocheek had plenty of natural courage, but he was apt to quail before the supernatural.
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