Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 10, 2025
The holes were not big enough for them to fall into. By this time the twins had eaten all their meat except some small pieces which they saved for bait. They each put a piece of meat on the hook. Then they squatted down on their heels and dropped the hooks into the holes. Kesshoo went back to the village, and left them there. "Don't stay out too long," he called back to them.
While you thought I was asleep here on the sand I was really in a trance. I thought it best to ask my Tornak about this spot, and whether we should be threatened here by any hidden danger. My Tornak says to stay!" This settled the matter. "Tell the women," said Kesshoo. Koko's father went over to the place where the women and children were. "Get out the tent poles," he called to them.
"You bring in the meat," she said, "and tell the twins to go to all the igloos and invite the people to come at sunset." "All right," Kesshoo answered, and he went out at once to the storehouse to get the meat. When he came out of the tunnel, Kesshoo found the twins trying to make a snow house for the dogs. They weren't getting on very well. Kesshoo could make wonderful snow houses.
While the twins were away giving the invitations, Kesshoo carried great pieces of bear's meat into the house. Koolee put in the cooking pan all the meat it would hold, and kept the blaze bright in the lamp underneath to cook it. Then Kesshoo took his long ivory knife and went out to help the twins with the snow house, as he had promised. "See, this is the way," he said to them.
So because Kesshoo was a brave fisherman and strong hunter, and because Koolee was clever in making clothing and shoes out of the skins of the animals which he brought home, the twins had the very best time that little Eskimo children can have. And that is quite a good time, as you will see if you read all about it in this book.
It was an accident, but Kesshoo reached up and took hold of Menie's foot and pulled him down on to the sleeping bench and rolled him over among the skins. "Crawl in there and go to sleep," he said. Monnie let herself down through the roof by her hands and crept in beside Menie. Then Kesshoo and Koolee wrapped themselves in the warm skins and lay down, too.
The seal dived down into the sea, but a bladder full of air was attached to the line on the dart, and this bladder floated on the water, so Kesshoo could tell by watching it just where the seal was. Kesshoo knew he had struck the seal, and although he was already towing the ice raft, he was determined to bring home the big seal, too! He called to Menie. "Sit still and wait until I come for you."
The journey out had been dangerous, but the journey back was much more so, for Kesshoo could not dodge the floating ice nearly so well. He had to pick his way carefully through the clearest water he could find. Very cautiously they moved toward shore.
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.
"If you do, I will summon my guiding spirits to tell you, but they will speak only in the darkness." Kesshoo took the lamp at once and put it out in the tunnel. Then he placed a thick musk-ox hide over the entrance, so that not a single ray of light came into the room. The darkness could almost be felt. Everybody sat very still and listened.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking