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Then he leaped on his own sledge, and turned to Red Rooney, who was standing by. "Ridroonee," he said, in a somewhat sad tone, "I go to find Nunaga. If I succeed not, you will see me no more." He held out his hand to take farewell in the Kablunet's fashion. "What say you?" exclaimed Rooney, taken by surprise, "Nonsense! see you no Pooh! hold on a bit."
At that moment Nunaga entered, looking radiant, in all the glory of a new under-garment of eider-duck pelts and a new sealskin upper coat with an extra long tail. "Have you seen Angut lately?" asked Rooney of the young girl. "Yes," she replied, with a modest smile that displayed her brilliant teeth; "he is in his own hut." "I will go and talk with him on this matter, Okiok," said the seaman.
Nuna was comparatively young, Nunaga was necessarily younger. The former was kind, the latter was kinder. The mother was graceful and pretty, the daughter was more graceful and prettier. Nuna wore her hair gathered on the top of her head into a high top-knot, Nunaga wore a higher top-knot.
Not long after the hospitable man's exit all the noise ceased, but the seaman could hear murmuring voices and stealthy footsteps gathering round the hut. In a few minutes Okiok returned. "Angut is now ready," he said, "to receive you. The people will look at you as you pass, but they will not disturb you." "I'm ready to go though sorry to leave Nuna and Nunaga," said the gallant Rooney, rising.
Indeed, I've been one of them myself ever since I came to this region. Give us another steak, Nunaga, my dear no, not a bear one; I like the walrus better. It's like yourself tender."
When poor little Nunaga, recovering from her state of semi-consciousness, opened her eyes, and sat up, her first impression was that the bear, the wizard, and Kabelaw lay around her dead. Bad as the state of matters was, however, it was not quite so bad as that.
The extreme helplessness and pain to which her enemy was reduced, instead of gratifying revenge in Nunaga, aroused in her gentle breast feelings of the tenderest pity; and she not only showed her sympathy in her looks and tones, but by her actions, for she at once set to work to bind up the broken limb to the best of her ability.
And truly Fortune or rather, God was indeed favouring the wicked man at that time, though not in the way that he imagined. In a few moments Ujarak's plans were laid. The opportunity was too good to be lost. "Where goes Nunaga to-day?" he asked quietly, on reaching the sledge. "To Moss Bay," answered Nunaga. "Has Nunaga forgotten the road?" asked Ujarak, with a slight look of surprise.
It was indeed a time of immense jubilation for every one was gratified more or less from the chief of the Moravian Brethren down to Tumbler and Pussi, who absolutely wallowed in fun and unctuous food, while Angut and Nunaga were of course supremely happy. The wedding ceremony, performed by Hans Egede, we need hardly say, was simple, and the festivities which followed were not complex.
She is a pleasant little woman." "But father said we were to ask liars," remarked Nunaga, with a sweet look. "I'm coming to them, child," said Mrs Okiok, with a touch of petulance the result of a gulp of lamp-smoke; "yes, you may ask Pussimek also. The wife of Simek is always full of wise talk, and her baby does not squall, which is lucky, for she cannot be forced to leave Pussi behind."
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