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Updated: May 5, 2025
The fire was a heap of gray ashes except for its red-hot center: the kyack was in gloom. Very softly she crept through the thickets, meanwhile encircling the dying fire, and came up behind it. Now it was almost in reach: now her hands were at its loops. She started to lift it in her arms. But disaster still dogged her trail.
Then they slipped the thong of the sled across his shoulders and under his arms like loops of a kyack. They were ready to go. The forest was laden with the early-morning silence; the trees stood draped in snow. It was cold, too, the frost gathered quickly on the mufflers that they wore about their lips. All too well they knew what lay before them.
Now her keen eyes could see the whole camp: the three seated figures of the men, their rifles leaning near them, their supplies spread out about the fire. At one side, quite to the edge of the firelight, she saw a kyack one of those square boxes that are hung on a pack saddle which seemed to be heaped with jerked caribou or moose flesh. For the time of a breath she could not take her eyes from it.
I drank a cup of coffee with him and wished him luck. Casey did not talk much. His mind was all taken up with the details of his starting, whether to trust his water cans on the brown burro or the gray, and whether he had taken enough "cold" shoes along for the mule. And he set down his cup of coffee to go rummaging in a kyack just to make sure that he had the hoof rasp and shoeing hammer safe.
When Henry and Frank went down the coast they found reindeer everywhere else but at Gladman Point and that neighborhood, and were there for three days without food. In the meantime Toolooah crossed the strait in a kyack and found the natives. On his return he killed a reindeer on the main-land and relieved their distress.
It sounded for all the world like waves upon a rock-bound coast, or like the distant rumbling of a train of cars. About midnight Joe called me to announce that the natives were coming off to the ship in boats. Presently it could be seen that one was a kyack and the other an omien, or women's boat, filled with women and children and a few men.
We also bought three dogs for about a pound of powder, and a kyack for Joe, for which the captain gave an old broken double-barrelled gun and a handful of powder and shot. The owner was in ecstasy over the bargain and Joe was more than happy. I could not help, however, feeling mortified that such advantage should be taken of their childish ignorance of values.
"Dick," began Bennett abruptly after a long while, "if we get stuck here in this damned ice I'm going to send you and probably Metz on ahead for help. We'll make a two-man kyack for you to use when you reach the limit of the pack, but besides the kyack you'll carry nothing but your provisions, sleeping-bags, and rifle, and travel as fast as you can."
Ikomar got the head of his enemy in chancery, and tightened his arm around his neck until Kyack dropped lifeless upon the snow. He gradually recovered, and would have returned the stolen wife, but Ikomar refused to take her back, and demanded payment instead. This was tendered to him, and being appeased by the offer further trouble was avoided.
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