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It was evident that he had received new light, and was meditating thereon. "My son," continued Amalatok, "these Kablunets seem to be stout-bodied fellows; can they fight are they brave?" "They are brave, father, very brave. Even the little one, whom they call Bunjay, is brave also, he is funny.
Of course he knew nothing of the object those self-sacrificing men had in view in thus establishing themselves in Greenland, only vague rumours having at that time reached his distant tribe. All he knew was that they were Kablunets, or foreigners, and that they had something mysterious to tell about the God of the Kablunets. Nunaga received Ujarak's information in silence, and waited for more.
"The Kablunets!" he gasped, "the white-faces have come! on a floating island! alive! smoking! it is all true!" "Where?" demanded our giant, whose face blazed up at once. "There!" cried Oolichuk, pointing seaward towards the ice-hummocks with both hands, and glaring up at his friend. Without another word Chingatok ran off in the direction pointed out, followed hotly by his friend.
He stopped abruptly, not having any words in the native language by which to name the Moravian Missionaries. The Eskimos waited with eager looks for the next word. "Well, well," resumed Rooney, with a pathetic smile, "it is a pity the whole world don't speak one language. At this point the interest of Okiok became, if possible, more intense. "Do the Kablunets know God, the Good Spirit?
No fabrications in the Arabian Nights, or Gulliver, or Baron Munchausen, ever transcended the stories about those Kablunets which had reached this broad, short, sturdy Eskimo stories which no doubt began in the south of Greenland with a substratum of truth, but which, in travelling several hundreds of miles northward, had grown, as a snowball might have grown if rolled the same distance over the Arctic wastes; with this difference that whereas the snowball would have retained its original shape, though not its size, the tales lost not only their pristine form and size, but became so amazingly distorted that the original reporters would probably have failed to recognise them.
My son, these Kablunets are ignorant fools, and you are not much better for believing them. Boo! I have no patience with the nonsense talk of Blackbeard." The old chief flung angrily out of the hut, leaving his more philosophic son to continue the discussion of the earth's mysteries with Makitok, the reputed wizard of the furthest possible north.
"Truly, mother, I once thought there was not," replied the giant, with a modest look, "but I am mistaken. The Kablunets make me stare and feel foolish." "But it is not possible to search for nothing," urged Toolooha. "So I said," replied her son, "but Blackbeard only laughed at me."
I have felt that Great Spirit in my breast long before I saw the Kablunets, and have asked the Great Spirit to send more light. He has answered my prayer. I have more light, and am satisfied." Again Angut paused, while the Eskimos gazed at him in breathless interest, and a strange thrill almost of expectation passed through the assembly, while he continued in a low and solemn tone
They would also suffer." "Go, go," said the Eskimo chief, losing temper as he lost ground in the argument; "what can Kablunets know about such matters? You tell me you are men of peace; that your religion is a religion of peace. Of course, then, you understand nothing about war. Go, I have been insulted, and I must fight."
"Nunaga," he said, holding up a finger, "in two suns, or less, we shall arrive at the land where the Kablunets have built houses and settled down." We may explain that the wizard here referred to the Moravians, who had about that time sent out their first mission to Greenland.
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