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He led the way in his kyak, and all the other boats followed. They kept out of the path of the iceberg, which had already floated some distance from the shore, and it was not long before they came to a little inlet. Kesshoo paddled into it and up to the very end of it, where a beautiful stream of clear water came dashing down over the rocks into the sea.
When they had gone a good many miles up the coast, Kesshoo waved his hand and pointed to a strange sight on the shore. There was a great river of ice! They could see where it came out of a hollow place between two hills.
Kesshoo had to put on the top blocks to make the roof. Neither Koko nor Menie could do it right, though they tried and tried. It is a very hard thing to do. When the blocks were all laid up and the dome finished, Kesshoo said, "Now, Monnie can help pack it with snow." Monnie got the snow shovel. The snow shovel was made of three flat pieces of wood sewed together with leather thongs.
He is old enough to know better." Everybody was so glad to see the light again that they all began to talk at once. Some one said to Kesshoo, "Tell us about the long journey to the south you took once long ago."
Kesshoo made knives and queer spoons out of bone or ivory for Koolee, and for himself he made new barbs for his bladder-dart, new bone hooks for fishlines, and all sorts of things for hunting. He made salmon spears, and bird darts, and fishlines, and he ornamented his weapons with little pictures or patterns.
It seemed to Menie as if his father would never reach him! He sat very still on the ice pan with the dead seal beside him, and Nip and Tup huddled up against him. At last Kesshoo came near enough so he could make Menie hear everything he said. "Menie," he cried, "if you do exactly what I tell you to, I can save you. "I will throw you my harpoon. You must drive it way down into the ice.
"Come along." He led the way down to the beach. The twins came tumbling after him, and I am sorry to tell you they gobbled their meat all the way! After the twins came Nip and Tup. The ice was very thick. Kesshoo and the twins and the pups walked out on it quite a distance from the shore. Kesshoo cut two round holes in the ice. One was for Menie and one for Monnie.
Other men remembered things about other times when food had been scarce. "It is lucky," they said to each other, "that here we have a great Angakok who understands all the secrets of the World and who can save us from such dreadful things." At last Kesshoo said, "Will you tell us, great Angakok, how you make these wonderful journeys?" "Do you really wish to know?" asked the Angakok.
Then the four hunters started on their journey Menie and Koko driving the dogs in front of them. Monnie stood on the Big Rock and watched them until they were out of sight in the fog. Nip and Tup were with her. They wanted to go as much as Monnie did and she had hard work to keep them from following after the hunters. Kesshoo knew very well where to look for the reindeer.
Kesshoo paddled slowly and carefully along, until at last there was only a little strip of water between the kyak and the solid ice. But how in the world could Menie get across that strip of water to safety? The kyak was between him and the solid ice, and Menie could not possibly get into the kyak. Neither could he swim. But Kesshoo knew a way. He came up closer to the solid ice.
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