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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Will Ujarak carry a message from the Kablunet to his village?" asked Rooney, turning to the wizard. "He will," replied the latter somewhat sulkily. "Does he know the angekok named Angut?" It is doubtful whether anger or surprise was most strongly expressed in the countenance of the Eskimo as he replied sternly, "Yes."
He had done his best to conceal matters, with which Angut, he said, had nothing to do; but somehow that wonderfully wise man had seen, as it were, into his brain, and at once became suspicious. Looking back, he saw that Angut had already harnessed the dogs to his sledge, and was packing the Kablunet upon it "All lies," interrupted Arbalik's mother, Issek, at this point.
"Nothing better could have happened," he said in a low tone. "The Kablunet is going to talk to them about his God. All we have to do is to mingle with them. Let each of you choose his man and sit down beside him. When I give the signal, strike at once, and let no second blow be needed."
"Do we not know now that we shall meet him again in the great Fatherland?" The poor youth was comforted. He dried his eyes, and went home with his mother. Yet he did not cease to mourn for his departed wizard friend. We will not harrow the reader's feelings by describing the leave-taking of the Eskimos from their friend the Kablunet.
They could not understand it at all, and stood, as it were, in eager, open-mouthed, and one-legged expectation. At last Grabantak looked up, as if smitten by a new idea, and spoke "Can Kablunet men fight?" he asked. "They love peace better than war," answered Leo, "but when they see cause to fight they can do so." Turning immediately to his son, Grabantak said with a grim smile
The fall caused the knife to spin into the air, and the poor Eskimo found himself at the mercy of the Kablunet. Instead of taking the man's life, Rooney bade him sit up. The man did so with a solemn look, not unmixed with perplexity. There is a phase of that terrible vice drunkenness which is comic, and it is not of the slightest use to ignore that fact.
They longed to speak words of comfort, but at first delicacy of feeling, which is found in all ranks and under every skin, prevented them from intruding on sorrow which they knew not how to assuage. At last the giant ventured one day to speak to Alf. "Has the Great Spirit no word of comfort for His Kablunet children?" he asked. "Yes, yes," replied Alf quickly.
"The words of Ujarak are wise," he said. "I was down at the high bluffs yesterday, and saw that what he says is true, for many seals are coming up already, and birds too. Let us go out to the hunt." "We would like much to see this wonderful Kablunet," remarked the jovial big hunter Simek, with a bland look at the company, "but Ujarak knows best. If the Kablunet needs rest, he must have it.
"Did your torngak tell you that he was a Kablunet?" asked Okiok simply so simply that there was no room for Ujarak to take offence. "No; my eyes told me that." "I did not know that you had ever seen a Kablunet," returned the other, with a look of surprise. "Nor have I. But have I not often heard them described by the men of the south? and has not my torngak showed them to me in dreams?"
His aim was to travel some hundreds of miles, till he reached the Kablunet settlements on the south-western shores of Greenland, in regard to which, various and strange reports had reached the northern Eskimos from time to time.
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