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Updated: June 9, 2025
The news of her capture had already been brought in by the women with the oomiak, and these men, with as many others as could be spared, had started off instantly to the rescue. "But they are not long gone," said Nunaga's mother, by way of comforting her child. "What matters that?" cried Nunaga in despair; "dear old Kannoa will be lost, for they know nothing of her danger."
In a short time breakfast was prepared, and Nuna went out to announce the fact. Slowly and with the utmost caution each member of the family crept in, and, before rising, cast the same admiring, inquiring, partially awe-stricken gaze at the unconscious Kablunet. Okiok, Nunaga, Norrak, Ermigit, and Tumbler all filed in, and sat down in solemn silence.
How Rooney rendered "gimcracks" into Eskimo we are not prepared to say, but the whole description sent Nunaga and her mother into fits of giggling, for those simple-minded creatures of the icy north unlike sedate Europeans are easily made to laugh. At this point Angut struck in again, for he felt that the conversation was becoming frivolous.
Tumbler and Pussi, after gazing for a considerable time at each other in a state of blank amazement at the whole proceedings, had finally dropped off to sleep on a pile of deerskins. Nunaga and Kabelaw, wrapping themselves in two of these, leaned against each other and conversed in low whispers.
I want you to go at once and tell Nunaga that Angut wants to see her alone." "Who?" asked Ippegoo in surprise. "Angut." "What! your rival?" "Yes; my rival. My torngak tells me that Angut wants to meet her alone, mind out on the floes at Puffin Island this afternoon." "Are are you sure your torngak has made no mistake?" asked the youth, with something of his old hesitancy.
Thus the singing duel would have to be delayed. Ultimately he would manage to carry off Nunaga to the land of the southern Eskimo; thus he would be able to escape the ordeal altogether, and to laugh at Okiok and his jingling rhymes.
Poor, horrified Nunaga thought it best to let her companion remain in ignorance of what was proposed, and cast about in her mind the possibility of making her escape, and carrying the news of her danger to the camp. If she could only get there and see Angut, she was sure that all would go well, for Angut, she felt, could put everything right somehow.
It is the substance of an actual speech made by a Greenlander to the Moravian brethren in 1737. If true love is, according to the proverb, more distinctly proved to be true by the extreme roughness of its course, then must the truth of the love of Angut and Nunaga be held as proved beyond all question, for its course was a very cataract from beginning to end.
"Tumbler saved Pussi!" exclaimed the Eskimo, looking first at his daughter and then at his wife. "Yes; Pussi was tumbling over an ice-cliff," said Nunaga, "and Tumbler held on to her." "By the tail," said Nuna. "So Ippegoo rushed out of the cave, and saved them both. Ujarak would have been too late. It seems strange to me that his torngak did not warn him in time."
The Eskimo word Nunaga signifies "my land," and was bestowed by Okiok on his eldest-born in a flood of tenderness at her birth. Apologising for this philological digression, we proceed.
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