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Updated: May 21, 2025
He thought perhaps Kesshoo could not manage both the ice raft and the seal, and he meant to go to help him. But in one second Kesshoo was right side up again. No water could get into the kyak because Kesshoo's skin coat was drawn tight over the hole in the deck, and Kesshoo was in the coat! Kesshoo often turned somersaults in the water in that way. Sometimes he even did it for fun!
Then she threw another into the snow hut itself. They went after that. She fed them all with dried fish until they were so full they curled up in the snow house and went to sleep. The moment the sun had gone out of sight all the people in the village came pouring out of their tunnels on their way to the feast at Kesshoo's house.
Kesshoo's house was so small that it seemed as if all the people could not possibly get into it. But the Eskimos are used to crowding into very small spaces, indeed. Sometimes a man and his wife and all his children will live in a space about the size of a big double bed. First the Angakok came out of his igloo, looking fatter than ever. The Angakok always found plenty to eat somehow.
Menie didn't like the sound anymore. It scared him! Right after the cracking noise Kesshoo's voice shouted, "Row farther out! Follow me!" He turned his kyak straight out to sea. All the other boats followed.
It had queer white wings, and the wind blew on these wings and made the boat go! Kesshoo had been out in a kyak to see it. He had even paddled all round it. The men on the great boat had fair hair, and one of them, the chief man of all, had bought some of Kesshoo's skins and one of his dogs. The man was a great chief. His name was Nansen.
Both his wives were thin. Their faces looked like baked apples all brown and wrinkled. When they reached Kesshoo's house, the Angakok went into the tunnel first. Now I can't tell you whether he had grown fatter during the five days, or whether the entrance had grown smaller, but this much I know: the Angakok got stuck! He couldn't get himself into the room no matter how much he tried!
And when she opened her mouth to yelp, of course she dropped the meat. Just at that instant Kesshoo's whip lash came singing about the ears of all three dogs. "Snap, snap," it went. They jumped to get out of the way of the lash. Then Koolee leaped forward and snatched the meat from under their noses, and scuttled back with it into the tunnel before you could say Jack Robinson.
They worked so hard they were warm as toast, though it was as cold as our coldest winter weather; and when it was all finished Menie ran clear over it just to show how strong and well built it was. When the snow house was all ready, Menie called the three big dogs. Tooky was the leader, and the three dogs together were Kesshoo's sledge team. Tooky was a hunting dog too.
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