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The party retired behind a hummock and prepared for action. "Will the man-of-the-woods go first and try the spouter?" asked Cheenbuk. "No," replied Nazinred; "the man-of-the-woods prefers to watch how the men-of-the-ice do their work. After that he will use the spouter, which we call pasgissegan. The white traders call it gun." Harpoons and lances were at once got ready.
Mozwa, having left a squaw, two little daughters, and a very small son, had still greater difficulties to contend with. But they both faced them like men. "Pasgissegan," said both men, at length, simultaneously. "I thought so," observed the trader, with a smile, as he selected two trade-guns the fire-spouters of the Eskimo and handed them across the counter.
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