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Of course it was still dark, for the morning was not far advanced, but the star-light and the aurora were quite sufficient to enable them to see their way, as they set out once more on their lonesome journey. Breakfast was a meal of which Nazinred made no account. Supper was his chief stand-by, on the strength of which he and his dogs slept, and also travelled during the following day.
Cheenbuk climbed a neighbouring berg with Nazinred to have a look at it. The Eskimo looked rather glum, for the idea of land-travelling and struggling among willows was repugnant to him. "I don't like the look of this," he said, turning to his companion; "there seems no end to it." "Let not my son be cast down," returned the Indian; "men-of-the-woods understand the nature of land.
The old chief ceased, amid many "ho's!" and "hoo's!" with the air of one who has propounded an unanswerable riddle, and all eyes were at once turned upon Nazinred. Accepting the challenge at once he stretched forth his hand: "My father has spoken," he said, "but his words are not the words of wisdom.
A superhuman effort might yet save them from being swept back to the point far below that from which they had started. Mozwa was just the man to make such an effort. Nazinred and the others were pre-eminently the men to back him up. "Ho!" cried Mozwa. "Hoi!" shouted Nazinred, as they bent their backs and cracked their sinews, and made the big veins stand up on their necks and foreheads.
"Never mind," thought Nazinred; "they have done it I can do it." Nothing is impossible to men of this stamp. He persevered, and succeeded after a couple of hours in producing a sort of misshapen bee-hive about six feet in diameter, and four feet high.
"Do they dwell far from here?" asked Nazinred, anxiously in spite of himself. "Not far. I can soon take you to their igloes. But tell me, man-of-the-woods, do you think your child had no reason for leaving home in this way except fondness for the young man?" "I know not," returned the Indian, with a doubtful, almost a hopeful look. "What other reason could she have?
On the second night, as the Eskimos sat in their igloe at supper talking over the events of the day, Nazinred asked Cheenbuk what he intended to do "For," said he, "it is not possible to take back with us on one sledge more than a small part of the many good things that we have found." "The man-of-the-woods is right," interposed the magician; "he is wise. One sledge cannot carry much.
The other two, learning wisdom from experience, kept back and barked furiously. Nazinred, although taken by surprise, was used to sudden alarms and not easily frightened. Knowing that the two dogs were very courageous, and therefore all the more likely to run into danger, he sprang forward towards the nearer of the two bears.
On this being translated, Nazinred seemed content, and began to examine his hurt, which by good fortune was a slight one. "It might have been worse," remarked Mowat gravely; "I've seen many a man in this country with a short allowance of finger-joints from the same cause." "What you observe is fery true, Tonal'," said the trader, with a serious air, "it might have been worse.
However that may be, it is certain that the Indians bade their entertainers farewell with feelings of hearty good-will, and, leaving the lonely outpost behind them, set off on the return journey to their wilderness home. It was autumn before Nazinred and Mozwa drew near to their village.
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