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Expecting every moment to see the Boreal crushed to splinters, we had to set about unpacking provisions, and placing sledges, kayaks, dogs and everything in a position for instant flight.
Here the slaughter commenced, and Stanley and Frank arrived at the scene of action while they were in the midst of the wholesale destruction. In all directions the kayaks, with their solitary occupants, were darting about hither and thither like arrows in the midst of the affrighted animals; none of which, however, were speared until they were driven quite close to the shore.
"Killer whales, killer whales come forth, my helping spirits and show yourselves, for here is one who desires to eat me up." And they came forth, and the house was crushed and the giant was killed, and the man set out again in search of his own. Then he met another big man, and this man did nothing but eat men, and their kayaks he threw down into a great ravine. The man rowed up to this giant.
But on the third day Clark had an attack of snow-blindness, and Mew took his place. Pretty soon our sufferings commenced, and they were bitter enough. The sun, though constantly visible day and night, gave no heat. Sometimes our frail bamboo-cane kayaks, lying across the sledges, would crash perilously against an ice-ridge and they were our one hope of reaching land.
Thus, Ootah would be helpless the rest of his days and as he died all the dreadful horrors of the curses would come upon him. Thus would Maisanguaq be revenged. As the midnight sun dipped below the horizon, the sea became more deeply golden. To the women watching along the shore, the multitude of kayaks became mere black specks.
In a few minutes more the boat was surrounded by the fleet of kayaks. There were hundreds of these tiny vessels of the north, each with its solitary occupant, using his double-bladed paddle vigorously.
The mother of Unga was crafty, and I grew angry at the shame in which I stood before my people. So that night I added till it became a great pile, and I hauled up my oomiak, which was of the value of twenty kayaks. And in the morning there was no pile. 'Then made I preparation for the wedding, and the people that lived even to the east came for the food of the feast and the potlatch token.
I daresay the Esquimaux would join with you in the wish, however, for their kayaks and oomiaks are better adapted for a calm than a stormy sea." "Tom," said Fred, breaking another long silence, "you're very tiresome and stupid to-night, why don't you talk to me?" "Because this delightful dreamy evening inclines me to think and be silent." "Ah, Tom! that's your chief fault.
Then they will come to another island, like this one, on the far-off side of which there is no ice nothing but sea, sea, sea. Our kayaks are gone," continued the giant, sadly, "we must come back and travel many days before we find things to make new ones." While he was speaking, Captain Vane's face brightened up. "Are you sure of what you say, Chingatok?"
Once when he came out he saw many kayaks appearing from the northward. Then he went in and said to his mother: "Now many kayaks are coming, to kill us all." "Then put on your swimming dress," said his mother. And he did so, and went down to the shore, and did not stop until he was quite close to the water.
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