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Updated: June 11, 2025
"They haven't much to think about except what they eat; they wanted to try our fish, and were ready to exchange. I promised I would send a load back from Ikogimeut if they'd " He seemed not to care to finish the sentence. "So you didn't do much for the Pymeuts after all?" "I did something," he said almost shortly.
"Before Ikogimeut, ice jam. Indian see men jump one big ice here, more big ice here, and one... go down. Indian" Nicholas imitated throwing out a line "man tie mahout round but big ice come " Nicholas dashed his hands together, and then paused significantly. "Indian sleep there. Next day ice hard. Indian go little way out to see. Man dead.
He was born at Pymeut, but his father, who is the richest and most intelligent man in his tribe, took Nicholas to Ikogimeut when the boy was only six. He was brought up in the Russian mission there, as the father had been before him, and was a Greek in religion till he was fourteen. There was a famine that year down yonder, so Nicholas turned Catholic and came up to us.
I hear it's ten miles wide up by the flats, and even a little below where we wintered, at Ikogimeut, it's four miles across from bank to bank." Kurilla looked at the Colonel with dignified reproach. Why did he go on lying about his journey like that to an expert? "Even at Holy Cross " the Boy began, but Kurilla struck in: "When you there?" "Oh, about three weeks ago."
"The people down at Ikogimeut don't need it like us. We're white duffers, and can't get fish through the ice. You sell some of it to us." But Nicholas shook his head and shuffled along on his snow-shoes, beckoning the dog-driver to follow. "Or trade some fur fur tay," suggested O'Flynn. "Or for sugar," said Mac. "Or for tobacco," tempted the Colonel.
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