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Updated: May 28, 2025
"This discovery made us very glad and very curious, for, having concluded what it was, we concluded also that there must be more like it, and we went in search of them immediately. Our search was soon rewarded, for these seal-holes were very numerous. "How to catch a seal was the question which now most occupied our thoughts.
Now the new seal-holes are not two days distant. Let the good hunters go to-morrow and bring back the seal I have speared twenty-five seal buried in the ice. When we have eaten those we will all follow the seal on the floe." "What do YOU do?" said the sorcerer in the same sort of voice as he used to Kadlu, richest of the Tununirmiut.
"She said to me, 'I jump down, I jump down from my place on the snow," cried Kotuko, with hollow eyes, leaning forward in the half-lighted hut. "She said, 'I will be a guide. She said, 'I will guide you to the good seal-holes. To-morrow I go out, and the tornaq will guide me." Then the angekok, the village sorcerer, came in, and Kotuko told him the tale a second time.
Then he felt himself a person of consequence, and on smooth, black ice, with a bold heart and a quick elbow, he smoked along over the levels as fast as a pack in full cry. He would go ten miles to the seal-holes, and when he was on the hunting-grounds he would twitch a trace loose from the pitu, and free the big black leader, who was the cleverest dog in the team.
Monnie was with Koolee in the hut. By and by Koko said to Menie, "Let's go out on the ice and hunt for seal-holes." "All right," said Menie. "You take your bow and arrows and I'll take my spear. Maybe we shall see some little auks." Koko had a little bow made of deer's horns, and some bone arrows, and Menie had a small spear which his father had made for him out of driftwood.
In half an hour the low village was out of sight, and in half an hour more they arrived at the place where a number of the Esquimaux were scattered in twos and threes over the ice, searching for seal-holes, and preparing to catch them.
Not only do they drag heavy weights for long distances at a great rate, but they by their excellent scent assist their masters in finding the seal-holes; and they will attack the bear and every other animal with great courage, except the wolf, of which they seem to have an instinctive dread.
The two boys went to their homes for their weapons, and then ran out on the ice. Nobody knew where they were. Of course, Nip and Tup went along. All the way over the ice they looked for seal-holes. It takes sharp eyes to find them, for seal-holes are very small.
He had been out since early dawn at the seal-holes, eight miles away, and had come home with three big seal. Half-way down the long, low snow passage or tunnel that led to the inner door of the house you could hear snappings and yelpings, as the dogs of his sleigh-team, released from the day's work, scuffled for warm places.
"I'll tell you!" said Menie. "Let's go hunting just the way father does! You do the shooting and I'll do the spearing! Won't everybody be surprised to see us bring home a great load of game? I shall give everything I get to my mother." "I'm going to hunt birds and seal-holes too," Koko answered. Kesshoo was very busy fixing the fastening of his harpoon, and he did not hear what they said.
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