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Updated: May 31, 2025
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.
But several of the chiefs contended no, saying that all commoners were fled to the mountains or were lying taboo in their houses, and that it might take days before they could catch one. In the end Eoppo gave in, though he grumbled from time to time that the law required two moepuus. "We paddled on, past Diamond Head and abreast of Koko Head, till we were in the midway of the Molokai Channel.
Every one had a piece of raw blubber to eat at once, and the very first piece went to Menie. While they were eating it, Koko came back. He had gone so far up the shore hunting little auks that he hadn't seen a thing that had happened. And he hadn't killed any little auks either. Koko felt that things were very unequally divided in this world.
She looked into his eyes and tried to smile, pretending that she feared nothing, that everything was as it should be; but deep down in her soul she knew it was all over. She understood that she had not found in him what she had sought; that which she had once known in herself and in Koko. She told him that he must write to her father asking her hand in marriage.
The air was still, except for the rippling sound of the water, the distant chatter of the women, the snores of the Angakok, and the buzzing of mosquitoes! For quite a long time everybody rested. Menie and Koko didn't go to sleep. They were having too much fun. They played with shells and pebbles and watched the mosquitoes buzzing over the Angakok's face.
Kesshoo got the light from the tunnel as quickly as he could, and set it on the bench. Then every one saw what was the matter! They all laughed all but Menie and the Angakok. The Angakok said to Koko's father, "You'd better look after that boy. He is disrespectful to me. That is a bad beginning!" Koko's father was ashamed of him. He said, "Koko is so small!" But the Angakok said, "Koko is six.
They had loaded the bear's skin on Menie's sled. "It's a woman's work to pull the meat home. We men just do the hunting and fishing," Menie said to Koko. They had heard the men say that. "Yes, we found the bear," Koko answered. "Monnie can pull the skin home." And though Monnie had found the bear just as much as they had, she didn't say a word.
"I'll tell you!" said Menie. "Let's go hunting just the way father does! You do the shooting and I'll do the spearing! Won't everybody be surprised to see us bring home a great load of game? I shall give everything I get to my mother." "I'm going to hunt birds and seal-holes too," Koko answered. Kesshoo was very busy fixing the fastening of his harpoon, and he did not hear what they said.
They had listened to every word about the Old Woman of the Sea, and how the Angakok traveled to the moon. You know I told you before that Koko was six. He wanted to know all about things. So he spoke right out in the dark, when every one else was still. He said, "Mother, if the Angakok can go anywhere he wants to, why couldn't he get out of the tunnel?" Koko's mother tried to hush him up.
She ran out of the tunnel with it in her mouth, just as Menie and Koko got round to the front of the igloo once more. "I-yi! I-yi!" they screamed, "Tooky's got the meat!" Kesshoo caught up his dog-whip and came running from the storehouse. The other two dogs wanted the meat too. They flew at Tooky and snarled and fought with her to get it. Then Koolee's head appeared in the tunnel hole!
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