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A shot from the fire-spouter followed; the ball entered the same eye, reached the brain, and the young bull sank to rise no more. The Indian reloaded as fast as he could, but not in time for another charge from the old bull, which Oolalik met with a stab in the side that again turned him off bellowing.
The Indian clubbed his gun to meet the onset, but the Eskimo, evading the first blow, caught hold of the weapon with both hands, and now began a fierce and prolonged struggle for possession of the "fire-spouter."
Suddenly Mangivik became rather excited. "Woman," he said earnestly to his wife, who stood beside him, "do you see who steers the kayak? Look, your eyes are better than mine." "No. I do not." "Look again!" cried Anteek, pushing forward at that moment. "He is not a Fire-spouter. He is one of us! But the one in front is a Fire-spouter woman. Look at the man! Don't you know him?"
And they would have roasted me alive, but one of their girls had pity on me, helped me to escape, and came away with me. Adolay is her name the girl you saw to-day." "Ho! ho! hoi-oi?" broke forth the chorus of satisfaction. "Yes, but for her," continued Cheenbuk, "I should have been under the ground and my hair would have been fluttering on the dress of a Fire-spouter chief by this time.
By degrees, however, they drew nearer and nearer, until they reached the bottom of the snow staircase. Still there was no sound to be heard in the white man's big canoe to indicate the presence of a human being. At last Cheenbuk uttered a shout with the view of attracting attention, but there was no reply. "Make the fire-spouter speak," he said, looking at his Indian friend.
Well, the snow where they live is very deep and soft not at all like the snow here, except when our snow is new-fallen so that they cannot travel in the cold time without great things on their feet. That," pointing downward "must be the track of those great things, and there must be a Fire-spouter not far off." "Perhaps a number of Fire-spouters a war-party," suggested Anteek, becoming excited.
The Eskimo had been gazing at him with ever-widening eyes, but at this his mouth also began to open, and he gave vent to a gentle "ho!" of unutterable surprise, for immediately there burst from the Indian's lips a puff of smoke as if he had suddenly become a gun, or fire-spouter and gone off unexpectedly.
"The kayak is indeed that of a Fire-spouter," said old Mangivik, shaking his grey head, "but I don't think any Fire-spouter among them would be such a fool as to run his head into our very jaws." "I'm not ready to agree with you, old man," began Gartok. "No; you're never ready to agree with any one!" growled Mangivik parenthetically.
"Oh yes;" the Indian was quite ready to go, whereupon the men scattered to harness the dogs and make preparation for an immediate hunt. "Go and get my sledge ready," said Cheenbuk to Anteek. The boy was only too glad to obey, for the mission implied that he should have a place on the sledge along with the Fire-spouter. In a very short time several sledges were ready.
He had warned Anteek to say nothing about the finding of the Indian, and the boy had been faithful to his trust, so that the whole population was thrown into a state of wide-eyed amazement, not to mention excitement, when the tall form of the Fire-spouter was seen to rise from the sledge and turn his grave countenance upon them with the calm dignity characteristic of his race.
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