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Updated: May 12, 2025
Sealskins hung about the walls drying; oily mittens, socks and boots were suspended about on pegs and racks of rib-bones. Lumps of blubber hung and lay about miscellaneously. Odours, not savoury, were therefore prevalent but Eskimos are smell-proof. "Mother," said the giant, raising his eyes from the flame to his parent's smoke-encircled visage, "they are a most wonderful people, these Kablunets.
"Go, Chingatok, call a council of my braves for to night, and see that these miserable starving Kablunets have enough of blubber wherewith to stuff themselves."
I have been told that Kablunets know nearly everything; I know next to nothing. We will talk much. It seems to me as if I had been born only to-day. Come; let us begin!" "My friend, you expect too much," replied Rooney, with a laugh, as he sat down to devote himself to the bear-steak which Nunaga had placed before him.
The fair Tekkona, whose courage and faith were naturally strong, had only one idea, and that was to follow cheerfully wherever Chingatok led; but she was very modest, and gave no opinion. She merely remarked: "The Kablunets are handsome men, and seem good."
There was a short loaded carbine lying beside the body, and in a pouch a flask of powder with a few bullets. "I think," said Nazinred, after careful inspection of the remains, "that this is one of the white men who come over the salt lake in their big canoes." "If so," said Cheenbuk, "we will follow his track, and may come to the big canoe itself; perhaps some of the Kablunets may be yet alive."
"My brother must indeed be a great angekok, for he seems to know all things. But we did not come from near the land where the Kablunets have built their huts. We have come from it," said the matter-of-fact leader. "Did I not say that?" returned Ujarak promptly. "No; you said near it whereas we came from it, from inside of itself."
He was puzzled, and when puzzled he usually retired to his hut and went to bed. Doing so on the present occasion he left his companion alone. "Poor, poor Kablunets," murmured Chingatok, descending from his position, and wandering away towards the outskirts of the village. "You are very clever, but you are somewhat foolish. I pity you, but I also love you well."
My thought is now to launch my kayak when we come to open water, load it with meat, take four spears and more lines than a strong hunter needs for a whole season; then paddle away south to discover the land of the Kablunets. They must be poor; they may be starving. I will guide them to our home, and show them this land of plenty."
"Have these men got wives?" asked the chief. "The old one has, and Bunjay is his son. The other ones no. The black man may have a wife: I know not, but I should think that no woman would have him." "What made him black?" "I know not." "Was he always black?" "The Kablunets say he was from so big." Chingatok measured off the half of his left hand by way of explaining how big.
When the company retired which did not happen until the Captain declared he had nothing more to give them, and turned the cooking apparatus upside down to prove what he said there was not a man or woman among them who did not hold and even loudly assert that the Kablunets were wise men. After the feast the council of war was held and the strangers were allowed to be present.
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