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Updated: June 15, 2025
The Indians had ten birch-bark canoes, with three warriors in most of them all armed, as we have said, with the dreaded fire-spouters and tomahawks, etcetera for, as they were out on the war-path for the express purpose of driving the dirty Eskimos off their lands, Magadar had resolved to make sure by starting with a strong and well-equipped force.
Seeing this, Magadar laid aside his paddle for a moment, raised his gun to his shoulder, and fired. Again were the echoes and the denizens of the woods disturbed, and two other Indians fired, thus rendering confusion worse confounded.
He knew that the poor girl was pining for her parents, and that she regretted having left them even although remaining in her native village might have involved her being wed against her will to the hated Magadar, or subjected to his persecutions during her father's absence.
He rose to difficulties and dangers as trouts to flies on a warm day. The Indians, however, were much too experienced warriors to be caught in that way. They eased off their grip with great caution. Moreover Magadar, having risen, and seeing how things were going, took off his belt and made a running noose of it.
"That is true," replied Mozwa, with a look of self-condemnation. "But," he added, with a sort of brightly apologetic glance, "sometimes I win, and then I am well off, and it is Magadar who is the fool." "Does it make you less of a fool because Magadar is one also? Are you comforted to-day, in your poverty, by the thought that you were well off yesterday?" Mozwa's bright glance faded slowly.
There is therefore no occasion for the young men to look fierce or go on the war-path." Having thus tried to throw oil on the troubled waters Nazinred came to an abrupt pause. Instantly one of the younger councillors, named Magadar, sprang to his feet. He was unusually excitable for an Indian.
As he spoke Raventik was seen sweeping into view from behind a point in the middle of the most rapid part of the river, and plying his long paddle with the intense energy of one whose life depends on his exertions. The Eskimos on the knoll gazed in breathless anxiety. A few minutes later the canoe of Magadar swept into view. "The Fire-spouters!" exclaimed Ondikik. "Three men in it!" cried Gartok.
Her mother and I loved her more than ourselves. All the young men loved her. One of them a bad one had sworn to his comrades that he would have her for a wife in spite of her father," he smiled very slightly at this point, with a look of ineffable contempt "but Magadar did not venture to say that in her father's ears!"
"Fool!" exclaimed Magadar, scarce able to refrain from tomahawking the brave in his wrath "launch the canoes and give chase." The order was obeyed at once, and the flotilla dashed out into the stream. But Raventik was not to be caught so easily as they had expected. He had turned on hearing the report, and swept out into the middle of the river, so as to get the full benefit of the current.
Alizay, who had risen, stood looking calmly on, but rendered no assistance, first, because there was no room for him to act, and second, because his left wrist had been almost broken by the violence of the throw that he had received. As for Magadar, he was only beginning to recover consciousness, and to wonder where he was! Suddenly Cheenbuk ceased to strive.
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