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As for Toolooha, she had enough to do to attend to the serious duties of the lamp, and always left the settlement of less important matters to the men. "You and yours are free to do what you please," said Chingatok to Eemerk, when the discussion drew to a close. "I go with the white men to-morrow."
While steaks of the same were being prepared by Toolooha, Captain Vane and his new allies were busy discussing the details of the advance. "I know that the difficulties will be great," he said, in reply to a remark from the interpreter, "but I mean to face and overcome them." "Ah!" exclaimed Alf, who was rather fond of poetry:
"Truly, mother, I once thought there was not," replied the giant, with a modest look, "but I am mistaken. The Kablunets make me stare and feel foolish." "But it is not possible to search for nothing," urged Toolooha. "So I said," replied her son, "but Blackbeard only laughed at me."
The Eskimo had been searching for the absentees to announce that dinner was ready, and that Toolooha was impatient to begin; they all therefore quickened their pace, and soon after came within scent of the savoury mess which had been prepared for them by the giant's squat but amiable mother.
"No, mother, no," answered Oblooria thoughtfully, "I saw not madness. They laughed much, it is true but not more than Oolichuk laughs sometimes. Yes I think again! There was one who seems mad the small boy, whom brother thinks to be the son of Blackbeard Benjay, they call him." "Hah! I thought so," exclaimed Toolooha, evidently pleased at her penetration on this point.
"Did he?" cried the mother, with a much relieved expression, "then let your mind rest, my son, for Blackbeard must be a fool if he laughed at you." "Blackbeard is no fool," replied Chingatok. "Has he not come to search for new lands here, as you went to search for them there?" asked Toolooha, pointing alternately north and south. "No if I have understood him.
"No, my son." "Then why do you speak to me of danger and death?" Toolooha was not gifted with argumentative powers. She relapsed into silence and lamp-smoke. But her son was not to be so easily dissuaded. He adopted a line of reasoning which never failed.
That night, as Chingatok sat beside his mother, busy with a seal's rib, he gradually revealed to her the wonders he had seen. "The white men are very wise, mother." "So you have said four times, my son." "But you cannot understand it." "But my son can make me understand," said Toolooha, helping the amiable giant to a second rib.
There is one little boy the son I think of Blackbeard who laughed more than all the rest. He lay down on the ice to laugh, and rolled about as if he had the bowel-twist." "That son of Blackbeard must be a fool more than his father," said Toolooha, casting a look of indignation at her innocent kettle. "Perhaps; but he is not like his father," returned Chingatok meekly.
Much amusement did the Captain derive from the contemplation of these theories as he crossed over the grand and boundless ocean, and chatted pleasantly with his son, or Chingatok, or Toolooha, who formed the crew of his little boat. The party consisted of thirteen, all told. These were distributed as follows: In the Captain's boat were the three just mentioned.
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