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Before he could find words to reply, Nazinred, whose vision was keen and practised, pointed out something that appeared like a cloud on the horizon ahead of them, and which he declared to be land. "I have noticed that the eyes of the man-of-the-woods are sharper than those of the Eskimo," said Cheenbuk.
There was a short loaded carbine lying beside the body, and in a pouch a flask of powder with a few bullets. "I think," said Nazinred, after careful inspection of the remains, "that this is one of the white men who come over the salt lake in their big canoes." "If so," said Cheenbuk, "we will follow his track, and may come to the big canoe itself; perhaps some of the Kablunets may be yet alive."
While these events were taking place among the islands of the Arctic sea, the Indian chief Nazinred was slowly pushing his canoe southward in the direction of Great Bear Lake. He was accompanied, as we have said, by three like-minded comrades, one of whom was named Mozwa or Moose-deer from some fancied resemblance in him to that uncouth animal.
Nazinred took quick but sure aim at one of its glaring eyes, and before the smoke of the shot had cleared away the walrus fell over dead with a bullet in its brain. The Indian chief was after this an object of almost veneration to the Eskimo men, of admiration to the women, and of delight to the boys and girls, who highly appreciated his kindly disposition as well as his skill with the spouter.
While they were conversing thus, the young men referred to had finally decided to go on the war-path to search for the Eskimo who had fought with their chief Nazinred, find him and kill him, and then continue the search for his companions; for they had set him down as a liar, believing that no Eskimo had the courage to visit their hunting-grounds by himself.
Cheenbuk soon formed his plans for the future, and laid them before the elders of the tribe the same evening after supper at that period when poor Nazinred would have been enjoying his pipe, if that implement had not been blown with all his tobacco and tinder into the Arctic sky.
Ten dots underneath, with a group of snow-huts at the end of them, were not so clear at first, but in the end Nazinred made out a sentence, of which the following may be given as a free-and-easy translation: "My hand points the direction in which we have gone. Your loving daughter is following the man who ran away with her.
But what is that on his wife's back not a new baby, surely?" "Why not, my child?" "Poor man!" sighed Adolay. "He had enough to provide for before." "Poor woman!" thought Cheenbuk, but he maintained a discreet silence. Of course it was decided to follow up the trail of the tribe without delay. As Nazinred had surmised, it was easily found and not difficult to follow.
Whether the Indian took this for a compliment or otherwise there was no expression on his mahogany face to tell, as he sat there calmly smoking and staring at the lamp. Suddenly he removed the pipe from his lips and looked intently at the Eskimo, who in turn regarded him with evident expectation. "My son," said Nazinred, "I have one or two questions to put to you.
Mindful of the prospect which had been held out to him and Nazinred, that an expedition might possibly be sent to establish an outpost and open up the fur trade in their immediate neighbourhood on the Ukon River, Mozwa had made more than one trip to the contemplated scene of operations, after the disappearance of his friend Nazinred, with the view of making himself well acquainted with the land, and ascertaining the best site for the new fort.
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