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Indeed the wizard himself condescended to smile at the conclusion, for the tale being a dream, removed from it the only objectionable part in his estimation, namely, that any torngak, great or small, would condescend to have intercourse with one who was not an angekok. "Now," cried Okiok, starting up, "bring more meat; we are hungry again." "Huk! huk!" exclaimed the assenting company.
But his day of retribution did not long linger. Having boasted that his Torngak had killed a man, Kullugak's two wives, who died suddenly within a few hours of each other at Okkak, where the family had obtained leave to settle, Kullugak, in company with another Esquimaux, assassinated the poor wretch within eight days after he had sacrificed the unfortunate infant.
Ujarak chanced to be the buffer who received the shock, and his big body was well able to sustain it. At the same moment he deftly caught the ball. "Ho! his torngak helps him!" shouted Okiok ironically. "So he does," cried the wizard, with a scoffing laugh, as he hurled the ball aloft; "why does not your torngak help you?"
"Ye-yes; but in this case there seems no uncertainty, for she and Angut " "Silence! you worse than baby walrus!" Ippegoo shut his mouth, and humbly drooped his eyelids. After a few minutes, Ujarak, having swallowed his wrath, continued in a calm tone "This time we have failed. Next time we will be sure to succeed, and " "I suppose your torngak told "
We passed the place where Torngak dwells in his mountain cavern and sends forth his decrees to the spirits of Storm and Starvation and Death to do destruction, or restrains them, at his will. In the forenoon of the third day after leaving George River we stopped to lash a few sticks on top of our komatik load. "No more wood," said Will. "This'll have to see us through to Nachvak."
All the lamps were immediately extinguished, and she began with deep sighs, and groans, and mutterings, to call up Torngak. Sometimes she raised her voice so loud that the whole house rang. At this signal, the people began to sing, and to ask one another, what does Torngak say?
"But how if it is not a beast?" asked the Eskimo. "How if you cannot see him at all, yet want to tell of him in in what did you say writing? I want to send marks to my mother to say that I have talked with my torngak. How do you mark torngak? I never saw him. No man ever saw a torngak. And how do you make marks for cold, for wind, for all our thoughts, and for the light?"
Angut and the Kablunet have bewitched you. But now, I tell my torngak to enter into your heart, and unbewitch you. Now, do you not feel that he has done it?" The youth, still smiling, shook his head. "I knew it," continued the wizard, purposely misunderstanding the sign. "You are all right again. Once more I lay my commands on you. Listen.
"Yes, of course," he replied; "tell your mother that your torngak no, you haven't got one yet that Ujarak's torngak told him in a vision that a visit to the lands of the far-south would do her good, would remove the pains that sometimes stiffen her joints, and the cough that has troubled her so much. So you will incline her to obey.
"Why does your torngak let you make so many mistakes?" Again a rush of anger prompted the wizard to sacrifice his quondam pupil, and once more the youth's imperturbable coolness overawed him. Bad as he was, Ujarak could not kill a smiling victim. "Ippegoo," said the wizard, suddenly changing his tone, and becoming intensely earnest, "I see what is the matter.
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