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Updated: May 25, 2025
The desire for that dish proving stronger than the desire for the story, the company, including Simek, set to work on it with as much gusto as if they had eaten nothing for hours past! Such is the Eskimo notion of the Aurora Borealis. The favourite dish having been disposed of, Simek continued his story.
"It is not long since I fed," he replied, with a grim smile; "I have other work on hand just now." "I also have work plenty of it; and I work best when stuffed full." So saying, Simek put a full stop, as it were, to the sentence with a mass of blubber, while the wizard went off, as he said, to consult his torngak as to state affairs of importance.
Every man and boy who could handle a kayak took to the water with harpoon and lance. Ippegoo, Arbalik, Okiok, Simek, Norrak, and Ermigit were among them, in borrowed kayaks, and mad as the maddest with glee. Even Kajo joined them. He was as drunk as the proverbial fiddler, having obtained rum from the sailors, and much more solemn than an owl.
As for Pussimek, she did not wait for assistance, but being of a lively and active, as well as a stout and cheery disposition, she set off at a pace which caused her tail to fly straight out behind her, and made it difficult for Simek to keep up with her.
Going first to the hut of Angut, he found the most of his countrymen and women surrounding Red Rooney, who, having finished breakfast, was seated on a sledge conversing with Angut and Simek, and others of the chief men of the tribe. All the rest were gazing and listening with greedy eyes and ears. "Hi!
Simek said no more, but backed out faster than he had come in. Ippegoo followed him. "Run, Ippe; tell all the men to get all their sledges and dogs ready, and come here to me." Ippegoo ran off at once, while the energetic hunter rearranged the fastenings of his own sledge and team as if for a long journey. He was thus engaged when Okiok and Angut were seen approaching the village at an easy trot.
On his ramble he fell in with a companion of about his own size, whose costume was that of a woman in miniature namely, a short coat with a fully developed tail, which trailed on the ground with the approved fashionable swing. This was none other than Pussi, the little daughter of Simek, the great hunter.
One of these was the wife of Simek, the best hunter of the tribe. Her name was Pussimek. She was round and short, comely and young, and given to giggling. She had a baby a female baby named after her, but more briefly, Pussi, which resembled her in all respects except size. Beside her sat the mother of Ippegoo.
"I would have asked Him to clear the sea of ice," replied the Eskimo promptly, "and send us kayaks and oomiaks to take us on shore." "And if He had answered you according to your prayer, you would have said, no doubt, `That is well." "Yes," answered Simek emphatically, and with a smile.
"With all my heart," said Rooney, starting off with all his lung-power, which was by no means slight. "Rule Britannia," rendered in good time, with tremendous energy, and all the additional flourishes possible, nearly drove the audience wild with delight. They had never heard anything like it before. "That beats you, Okiok," said Simek. "That is true," replied Okiok humbly.
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