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Updated: May 4, 2025
"I have seen these bergs breaking from the great land-ice since I was a little boy," said Angut, with earnest gravity, "and I have seen them float away and away till they vanished in the far-off. Can Ridroonee tell where they go to?" "Truly I can. They are carried by currents out into the great sea we call it the Atlantic, and there they melt and disappear."
Being resolved if possible to discover and counteract it, he told Rooney that he meant to continue his journey southward, and join the hunters. "Good. I will rest here till you return," said the seaman, "for I feel that I'm not strong enough yet for much exertion." "But Ridroonee promised to dwell with me," returned Angut, somewhat anxiously. "So I did, and so I will, friend, when you come back.
"Tell me, Kablunet," he began; but Rooney interrupted him. "Don't call me Kablunet. Call me Red Rooney. It will be more friendly-like, and will remind me of my poor shipmates." "Then tell me, Ridroonee," said Angut, "is it true what I have heard, that your countrymen can make marks on flat white stuff, like the thin skin of the duck, which will tell men far away what they are thinking about?"
Sitting up, he looked gravely first at Nunaga, then at her mother, then at her father, after which he smiled mildly and yawned. "So you've got back, Okiok?" "Yes, Ridroonee. And all the hunters are coming, with plenty to eat great plenty!" The women's eyes seemed to sparkle at these words, but they said nothing. "That's a good job, old boy," said the seaman, rising.
"Has Ridroonee ever felt something in here," she laid a hand on her withered bosom "as if it broke in two, and then went dead for evermore? That is what I felt the day they brought my man home; he was so kind. Like my son Okiok, and Angut."
If they break up while we are on them we shall be lost. Will Ridroonee agree to take old Kannoa back to her friends, and I will go forward with the sledge alone?" "What say you, Kannoa?" asked Rooney, turning to the old woman with a half-humorous look. "Kannoa says she will live or die with Angut and Ridroonee," she replied firmly. "You're a trump!" exclaimed the seaman in English.
"There is danger somewhere I know not where or what; but I must leave you. Ermigit will take good care of Ridroonee till I come again." "Nay, if there is danger anywhere I will share it," returned Rooney, rising and stretching himself; "I am already twice the man I was with all this resting and feeding."
This threat produced silence, and a sniff from Arbalik's mother. Mrs Okiok went on: "The land, Ridroonee says, is very rich. They have all that they wish and more!" "Poo! I would not care to live there," said Pussimek. "And no walruses at all," added Mrs Okiok. "Boo! a miserable country!" exclaimed Ippegoo's mother. "Then they have villages so big! oh!"
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