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You have come from a spot near to the land where the Kablunets have settled, and you are bringing iron and other things to exchange with my kinsmen for horns of the narwhal and tusks of the walrus." Nevertheless, the leader and most of the party who had circled round the wizard and his sledge, opened their eyes in amazement at this smart statement of their affairs.
"We will make no noise," said a youth who was the exact counterpart of Benjamin Vane in all respects except colour and costume the first being dirty yellow and the latter hairy. The sentinel frowned worse than ever. "The Kablunets," said another of the band, entreatingly, "shall hear nothing louder than the falling of a snow-flake or a bit of eider-down." Still the sentinel was inexorable.
A longing, wistful expression used to steal over Chingatok's face as he gazed at the southern horizon while listening to these strange rumours, and a very slight smile of incredulity had glimmered on his visage, when it was told him that one of the floating islands of these Kablunets, or white men, had been seen with a burning mountain in the middle of it, which vomited forth smoke and fire, and sometimes uttered a furious hissing or shrieking sound, not unlike his own voice when he was a Skreekinbroot.
He wound up this summary by grasping and shaking the wizard's hand, and then flung off, to expend his feelings on other members of the community. As winter advanced, Captain Vane continued to keep up the interest of the Eskimos, and to increase their respect for the Kablunets, by gradually unfolding the various sources of power which were at his command.
Having thus made things secure, and having cut off some choice portions of the bear for food, she harnessed the dogs, grasped the whip, mounted to the driver's place, brought the heavy lash down with wonderful effect on the backs of the whole team, and set off at full gallop towards the land where Kablunets were said to dwell.
"Is it the Kablunets' God you thank and pray to?" "Yes; Jesus not only the Kablunets' God, but the God and Saviour of the Innuit also the Saviour of the whole world. I have found Him or rather, He has found me, the wicked angekok, since I came here." The dying man turned a grateful look on Egede as he spoke. "It is true," said the missionary, coming forward.
He believed intensely, and justifiably, in his own courage. No man, he felt quite sure, had the power to stare him into a nervous condition not even the fiercest of the Kablunets. Let Blackbeard try, and do his worst! Animated by these stern and self-reliant sentiments, he stepped upon the mat. Benjy, being quick in apprehension, perceived his previous error, and proceeded this time with caution.
Tell me, my son, where do the Kablunets live? Do they hunt the walrus or the seal?" "Blackbeard has told me much, father, that I do not understand. His people do not hunt much only a very few of them do." "Wah! they are lazy! The few hunt to keep the rest in meat, I suppose." "No, father, that is not the way. The few hunt for fun. The great many spend their time in changing one thing for another.
He had no need to ask questions. Oblooria's gaze directed his, and there, coming round the promontory, he beheld an object which had never before filled his wondering eyes. It was, apparently, a monstrous creature with a dark body and towering wings, and a black thing in its middle, from which were vomited volumes of smoke. "Kablunets! white men!" he yelled.
Chingatok did not appear to be shocked by the old man's plain speaking, but he did not agree with him. "No, father," said he, after a pause. "Blackbeard is not a liar. He is good and wise, and speaks the truth. I have seen the Kablunets do it myself. In the big oomiak that they lost, some of the men did it, so puff, pull, puff, puff is it not funny?"
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