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The spot on which they stood was the top of a little mound, with thick shrubs on the land side, which clothed a steep, almost precipitous descent. Just within these shrubs, as it were under the brow of the hill, Nunaga observed a small natural rut or hollow. The other, or sea, side of the mound, was quite free from underwood, and also very steep.
Longman, 1820. When Red Rooney and his friend reached the village, and found that most of the men had gone south to hunt, and that Nunaga was living in peace with her mother in her father's town mansion, their fears were greatly relieved, although Angut was still rendered somewhat anxious by the suspicion that mischief of some sort was brewing.
He knows everything; he can do anything. Do I not speak what is true?" He turned to his wife and daughter as he spoke. Thus appealed to, Nuna said it was all true, and Nunaga said it was all very true, and blushed and, really, for an Eskimo, she looked quite pretty. Don't laugh, good reader, at the idea of an Eskimo blushing.
As he spoke the sound of child-voices arrested them, and one was heard to utter the name of Nunaga. The two men paused to listen. They were close to the entrance to the ice-cave, which was on the side of the berg opposite to the spot where the games were being held, and the voices were recognised as those of Pussi and Tumbler.
I shall this night harness my dogs, and carry off Nunaga by force. And you must harness your dogs in another sledge, and follow me." "But but my mother!" murmured the youth. "Must be left behind," said the wizard, with tremendous decision and a dark frown; but he had under-estimated his tool, who replied with decision quite equal to his own "That must not be."
He was interrupted suddenly at this point by Rooney, who saw at once what was coming. "Okiok," he said, "I want Nunaga to mend and patch my torn garments for the next few days. Her mother has enough to do with cooking and looking after the house. Can you spare her for that work?" Yes, Okiok could spare her; and was very glad to do all that he could to accommodate the foreigner.
The first night her bed was a flat rock; the second, a patch of sand; but on both occasions the cheery little woman softened the place with a thick bear-skin, and, curling up, covered herself with the soft skin of a reindeer. And what were the thoughts of the wicked Ujarak as he lay there, helpless and suffering, silently watching Nunaga?
If you did not love her, I would hate her. To me she is not of so much value as the snout of a seal." The wizard seemed pacified, for his frown relaxed, and after a few moments' thought he went on savagely "Angut also loves Nunaga." "The madman! the insolent! the fool!" exclaimed Ippegoo; "what can he expect but death?"
In the spirit-land Angut and Nunaga, Okiok, Nuna, Simek, and all the Innuit friends, when washed in the blood of Jesus, will again see the face of Ridroonee, and rejoice." This was the first time that Angut had distinctly declared his faith, and it afforded matter for profound satisfaction to Rooney, who grasped and warmly shook his friend's hand.
"Nunaga," he said, holding up a finger, "in two suns, or less, we shall arrive at the land where the Kablunets have built houses and settled down." We may explain that the wizard here referred to the Moravians, who had about that time sent out their first mission to Greenland.
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