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Okiok returned the glare with interest, and, being liberal, threw a sneer of contempt into the bargain. Ujarak then glared round at the audience, and began his song, which consisted merely of short periods, without rhyme or measure, but with a sort of rhythmic musical cadence. He commenced with the chorus "Amna ajah ajah hey!" which was vociferously repeated by his supporters among the audience.
Okiok took the hint, rose at once, and went out, passing the youth as he entered, and being much struck with the lugubrious solemnity of his visage. "Mother," said Ippegoo, sitting down on a skin beside the pleasant little woman, "it comes." "What comes, my son?" "I know not."
"A beast!" exclaimed Pussimek, who had never before seen or heard of scarlet ribbon. "Saw you ever a beast so very red?" said the wife of Okiok doubtfully. "It is no beast," remarked the mother of Ippegoo; "it is only a bit of sealskin dyed red." "No sealskin ever fluttered like that," said the mother of Arbalik sternly. "It is something new and beautiful that some one has lost. We are lucky.
"Boh! ba! boo!" exclaimed Simek, after a sudden guffaw; "that's not equal to what I did to the walrus. Did I ever tell it you, friends? but never mind whether I did or not. I'll tell it to our guest the Kablunet now." The jovial hunter was moved to this voluntary and abrupt offer of a story by his desire to prevent anything like angry feeling arising between Okiok and the wizard.
Feeling all right, with the familiar paddle in his hands, Kajo tried to rouse himself, bethought him of flight, gave a hiccoughing cheer, and went skimming away like a sword-fish. "After him now, boys, and keep alongside," cried Okiok.
On hearing this, Rooney, Okiok, and Simek went to the entrance of the cave, followed by the rest, who, however, were instructed to keep under cover till required, if no more than three or four men should arrive. A few seconds later, and the robber chief appeared on the flat space in front of them. He was closely followed by a squat comrade and the fierce man with the bundle on his back.
It was to this residence that Okiok drove on the afternoon of the day that he missed Ippegoo's visit. On finding that most of the men had gone southward to hunt, he resolved to follow them, for his purpose was to consult about the Kablunet, who had so recently fallen like a meteor from the sky into their midst.
"Then shall we disappear with this berg, if we don't escape from it?" said Okiok, with a look so serious that it was almost humorous. "That is the pleasant prospect in store for us, as you say," returned Rooney; "but cheer up, lad. We intend to escape from it; so don't let your heart sink, else your body won't be able to swim."
Ujarak, having ascertained that Okiok had joined the hunting party, and that the Kablunet had reached the village, resolved to make a daring attempt to carry off the fair Nunaga from the very midst of her female friends, and for this purpose sought and found his dupe Ippegoo, whom he sent off to the green cave to await his arrival.
The Eskimo exchanged solemn glances with his host, then looked round the circle, and said that some things could not be explained easily. He would think first, and afterwards he would talk. "That is well said," returned Rooney. "`Think well before you speak' is a saying among my own people." He remained silent for a few moments after that, and observed that Okiok made a signal to his two boys.
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