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Updated: June 13, 2025
Maisanguaq saw Ootah struggle to release himself; then he saw the kayak tilt as the hunter was drawn, by the mighty impetus of the plunging sea-horse, into the water. He heard Ootah's cry saw the blood red waters seethe as they closed over him. In a brief interval the kayak righted itself it was empty. A murmur of dismay rose from the others. "The tupilak! the tupilak!"
The pan-shaped drag, attached to the extreme end of the long line securing the harpoon which Ootah had driven into the animal, became entangled in the lashings on the forepart of Ootah's kayak. Leaning forward, Ootah tried to disentangle it. He feared that the beast, in its struggle, might drag all his weapons and paraphernalia into the sea.
And with it a ghastly fear that the thing he loved was dying. Into the lamp he placed the last meagre bits of remaining blubber. Then he again set to chafing the tender little hands. Cold and hunger had wrought havoc upon Annadoah. Ootah's heart ached. Finally her eyelids stirred. Her lips parted. A smile brightened her face. Ootah leaned forward, breathlessly.
Sometimes her hands, as they passed over his forehead, absently wandered to the couch, sometimes they soothed the air near the suffering man. Then she would recall herself. Gazing upon Ootah, pity would fill her; and then well, then her mind would wander. She was faint herself, tired and half-asleep. Once, as she touched Ootah's hand, he closed it impulsively over hers. Her heart gave a thud.
Maisanguaq exultantly murmured, his eyes alight. "Happy angakoq! Thou shalt have much of Ootah's meat!" Over the spot where Ootah sank the sun flamed. The water seethed with the threshing of the animals beneath the sea. Ootah's float finally rose. The natives watched breathlessly for the reappearance of Ootah. The float bobbed up and down as the animal's death struggles beneath the water subsided.
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