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Although their craft had been thus suddenly destroyed and lost, they were not left absolutely destitute, for each one, with that prompt mental activity which is usually found in people whose lives are passed in the midst of danger, had seized the bear-skin, deerskin, or fur bag on which he or she happened to be sitting, and had flung it on to the floes before leaping thereon; and Ippegoo, with that regard for internal sustenance which was one of his chief characteristics, had grasped a huge lump of seal's flesh, and carried it along with him.
It is to be hoped also that I have freed you from superstition." "But where is the bear-angekok?" asked the bewildered youth. "I am the bear-angekok." "Impossible!" cried Ippegoo. To this Rooney replied by going back to his bear-skin, spreading it over himself, getting on a stool so as to tower upwards, spreading out his long arms, and saying in his deepest bass tones
I want you to go at once and tell Nunaga that Angut wants to see her alone." "Who?" asked Ippegoo in surprise. "Angut." "What! your rival?" "Yes; my rival. My torngak tells me that Angut wants to meet her alone, mind out on the floes at Puffin Island this afternoon." "Are are you sure your torngak has made no mistake?" asked the youth, with something of his old hesitancy.
"But but I am not a wise man, you know," Ippegoo ventured to remark. "True; but when I have made you an angekok then you will become a wise man don't you see?" As the word angekok signifies "wise man," Ippegoo would have been a fool indeed had he failed to see the truism. The sight raised his spirits, and made him look hopeful. "Well, then, stupid one, speak not, but listen.
Red Rooney, aghast with horror at the impending fate of the dear old remembrancer of his grandmother, sprang forward with the agility of a wild cat, but his energy, intensified though it was by rage, could not have prevented the catastrophe if Ippegoo had not come to the rescue. Yes, that mild youth was the instrument chosen to avert the blow.
"Why does your torngak let you make so many mistakes?" Again a rush of anger prompted the wizard to sacrifice his quondam pupil, and once more the youth's imperturbable coolness overawed him. Bad as he was, Ujarak could not kill a smiling victim. "Ippegoo," said the wizard, suddenly changing his tone, and becoming intensely earnest, "I see what is the matter.
"That's good," said Ippegoo, "then she can't and won't go to Puffin Island. I said I would tell her that Angut wants to meet her there alone." "Who told you to tell her that?" asked Nuna. "A fool," answered Ippegoo, promptly. "He must indeed have been a fool," returned Nuna, "for Angut has just been helping Nunaga to harness the dogs, and he is now with my husband in his own hut."
"O why won't you come to me, torngak?" demanded the poor youth, with a pitiful whine. "Because you are wise enough already," said a low voice, which startled the audience very much, and sent a thrill of alarm, not unmingled with surprise, to the hearts of Ippegoo and his master. The voice seemed to come from the outside of the hut.
A groan and glance of indifference was the Eskimo's reply, for starvation and danger were familiar and prospective evils, whereas toothache was a present horror. We fear it must be told of Ippegoo that he was not celebrated for endurance of pain, and that, being fond of sympathy, he was apt to give full vent to his feelings the result, perhaps, of having an over-indulgent mother.
They only managed to reach the berg with extreme difficulty. "Thank God, all safe! but we have had a close shave," exclaimed Rooney, as he held out his hand to assist Ippegoo, who was the last of the party to clamber up the rugged side of the berg from the broken floe-pieces which were grinding against it.
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