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Okiok followed more sedately, armed with a similar musical instrument, and retired to one side of the arena, for the wizard, perhaps because he was the challenger, had the right to begin. A good authority on the Eskimo tongue says: "The language is not easily translatable, the brevity and force of a single sentence requiring to be rendered in many words of another tongue."
"Is he very thin?" asked Angut, who had been somewhat impressed by Ujarak's description of the stranger, and his evident desire that no one should go near him. "He is not fat," answered Okiok, "but he has not been starving long; sleeping and stuffing will soon make him strong. Don't you think so, Norrak? You saw him at his worst, when we found him on the ice."
He had not advanced far when Kajo, feeling uncomfortable, tried slightly to alter his position, whereupon Okiok took up a spear that lay handy, and gave him a slight prick by way of reminding him of his duty. The rest of the voyage was accomplished in peace and safety. In the evening the party arrived at the temporary abode of the tribe to which Kajo belonged.
The mother of Arbalik now felt that she had sufficient ground for the belief that Mrs Okiok was utterly demoralised and lost, in the matter of veracity. Mrs Okiok, looking at her, perceived this in her countenance, and dropped that subject with a soft smile of conscious innocence. Thereupon curiosity broke forth again with redoubled violence.
Even his more intimate friends, Angut and the Okiok family, were startled by it. In fact, the seaman, besides being something of a mimic, possessed a metallic bass voice of profound depth, which, like most bass voices, was capable of mounting into the higher latitudes of tone by means of a falsetto. He utilised his gifts on the present occasion.
Indeed the wizard himself condescended to smile at the conclusion, for the tale being a dream, removed from it the only objectionable part in his estimation, namely, that any torngak, great or small, would condescend to have intercourse with one who was not an angekok. "Now," cried Okiok, starting up, "bring more meat; we are hungry again." "Huk! huk!" exclaimed the assenting company.
He shooks Ip'goo an' bose hoed out degidder." Okiok looked at Kunelik, Kunelik looked at Okiok, and both gravely shook their heads. Before they could resume the conversation, Ippegoo's voice was heard outside asking if his mother was in. "Go," said Kunelik; "though he is a fool, he is wise enough to hold his tongue when any one but me is near."
Going to the extreme edge of the precipice, the bear sat down on his haunches, and hungrily contemplated the birds, which were now beyond his reach, twittering noisily as if to tantalise him. "I would that I had a spear," growled Okiok. "I would venture at him even with a big stick," said Simek. "My friends," said Rooney, with sudden animation, "listen to me.
There would have been great danger in this if he had been alone, for in the event of his failing to catch the paddle he would probably have been drowned, but with Ermigit at hand to help, there was no danger. Other exercises there are which the sons of Okiok were not able to practise at that time because of the weather being unsuitable.
Wishing the latter all success, we will follow the fortunes of Angut, the eccentric angekok. Had you and I, reader, been obliged to follow him in the body, we should soon have been left far behind; fortunately, spirit is more powerful and fleet than matter! Without rest or halt, the stalwart Eskimo journeyed over the ice until he reached the residence of Okiok.
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