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Every one else, including dogs and bairns, with the exception of Mrs Mangivik who, being as it were petrified with consternation, remained absolutely immovable fled for shelter behind the igloes, leaving Nazinred, Adolay, Cheenbuk and Anteek in possession of the field.
"Oh, I see!" shouted Fred, "he's going to make a snow-hut, igloes they call them here. Capital! I never thought of that! Come along; let's help him!" Meetuck was indeed about to erect one of those curious dwellings of snow, in which, for the greater part of the year, his primitive countrymen dwell.
"My father is tired, he will lie down on the sledge with a bearskin round him, while I take him to the igloes of my people. After that I will take him to Adolay." "Nazinred will not lie down. He is no longer tired, for his heart is glad."
"Do they dwell far from here?" asked Nazinred, anxiously in spite of himself. "Not far. I can soon take you to their igloes. But tell me, man-of-the-woods, do you think your child had no reason for leaving home in this way except fondness for the young man?" "I know not," returned the Indian, with a doubtful, almost a hopeful look. "What other reason could she have?
After the first excitement of arrival was over, the Eskimos built igloes on the shore and settled down to dismantle the vessel and take possession of her stores, and of all that could be of use to them. They built an elongated oval igloe on the shore as a store to receive the lighter and, as they esteemed them, more valuable articles.
A slight effort to exert himself was observable in the Indian, and then, getting him on his feet, Cheenbuk on one side and Anteek on the other, they forced him to stagger about until vitality began to revive. "Now, boy, we'll get him into the sledge, and away back to the igloes." Without delay they led Nazinred to the sledge, rolled him in a large white bearskin, and tied him on.
If the Great Maker thought these things good for us, would he not have made them to walk up to our igloes and ask to be killed and eaten? Why should they even do that? why not walk straight down our throats and save all trouble? Is it not rather quite plain that man was made with wants and wishes and the power to satisfy them, and so advance from good to better?
"Tell them all to keep back, out of the way of that, Cheenbuk," said Nazinred. The excitement and nervous expectation of the Eskimos had been worked up considerably by these preparations, so that they not only retired to a safe distance, but some of them even took refuge behind the igloes, and all held their breath while their guest took aim.
If the life of Nazinred had depended on the speed of the Eskimo dogs there would have been much hope of it, for Cheenbuk made them fly like the wind until he regained the three igloes. As for Attim, having, with prompt sagacity, perceived that the strangers were friendly, he resigned himself to his fate.
"Oh, I see!" shouted Fred, "he's going to make a snow-hut igloes they call them here. Capital! I never thought of that. Come along; let's help him!" Meetuck was indeed about to erect one of those curious dwellings of snow in which, for the greater part of the year, his primitive countrymen dwell.
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