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"Okiok tells me," continued Rooney, "that there is to be no fighting or bloodshed in the matter. How is that?" Angut expounded, as we have already explained, and then asked "Have they no singing combats in your land?" "Well, not exactly; at least not for the purpose of settling quarrels." "How, then, are quarrels settled?" "By law, sometimes, and often by sword you would call it spear and pistol.
He was cut short by Ippegoo suddenly rising, dropping the pipe, clapping one hand on his breast, the other on his mouth, and rushing into the bushes where he disappeared like one of his own puffs of smoke. At the same moment Rooney and Okiok appeared on the scene, laughing heartily.
"Listen," he said, with a sort of subdued intensity, that had the effect of quieting his friend; "get out your sledge and dogs." "All are ready," interposed Simek, eagerly. Angut waited for no more, but, leaving his friends, ran off at full speed towards the village. Okiok and Simek leaped on their respective sledges and followed.
As he spoke, Okiok caught the slender youth in his powerful arms, laid him gently on his back, flung some snow in his face, and then ran away. Ippegoo, entering at once into the spirit of the fun, arose and gave chase. Excelling in speed as much as his opponent did in strength, the youth soon overtook him, managed to trip him up, and fell on the top of him.
To-night you must be prepared to go through the customs that will admit you to the ranks of the wise men." "Don't you think," interposed the youth, with a shiver, "that it would be better to try it on some one else on Angut, or Okiok, or even Norrak? Norrak is a fine boy, well-grown and strong, as well as clever, and I am such a fool, you know." "You have said truth, Ippegoo.
Then Okiok and his party hastily constructed a rude snow-hut to protect them from the storm. Here for two more days and nights they were imprisoned, and much of that time they passed in listening to the pleasant discourse of Hans Egede, as he told the northern natives the wonderful story of redemption through Jesus Christ, or recounted some of his own difficulties in getting out to Greenland.
"Yes; two tails," replied Rooney, "and two buttons above them." "Strange," remarked Angut; "it is only our women who have tails; and they have only one tail each, with one button in front not behind to fasten the end of the tail to when on a journey." "Women with tails look very well," remarked Okiok, "especially when they swing them about in a neat way that I know well but cannot describe.
"So there is nothing left for us but to go on by water," said Angut, with decision. "Nunaga must be rescued." "And so must Tumbler," said Okiok. "And so must Pussi," said Simek. "What are you fellows consulting about?" shouted Red Rooney, coming up at that moment with the others in the oomiak. "We are talking of the danger of the ice breaking up," answered Angut.
Angut, on the other hand, was perfectly self-possessed and subdued, but his heaving chest, quivering nostrils, compressed lips, and frowning brows told that a volcano of emotion raged within. Turning suddenly to Okiok, he seized him by both arms as if his hands were vices.
These were made of undressed sealskin, with soles of walrus hide; and the pleasant-faced little woman was stitching together the sides of a rent in the upper leather, using a fine sharp fish-bone as a needle and a delicate shred of sinew as a thread, when her son entered. "Mother," he said in a somewhat excited tone, as he sat down beside his maternal parent, "I go to the hut of Okiok."
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