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Updated: June 22, 2025
His team of eight lean dogs howled. "Tugto! Tugto!" he called. The dogs leaped into the air his sled shot forward. Ootah strode forward. In his desperate adventure Ootah was joined by one of the younger members of the tribe, Koolotah by name, a lad barely eighteen years of age. All the others had hung back.
And now the men went out to sea to hunt the birds. And not until they could bear no more on their kayaks did they row home again. But then all those men had to give up their whole catch to Tugto's house. Not until the second hunting were they permitted to keep any for themselves. Next day they went out to hunt for seal. They harpooned many, but these also were given to Tugto and his wife.
Then she brought the tail half, and half the blubber of a seal, up to Tugto and his wife. She came to the entrance, but it was covered with snow, so that it looked like a fox hole. At first, she dropped that which she was carrying in through the passage way. And it was this which Tugto and his wife first saw; the half of a black seal's meat and half of its blubber cut across.
And when they heard this, they began to come and visit the place where he had land. In this way there came once a man who was called Tugto, and his wife. And while they were there they were both great wizards the man and his wife began to quarrel, and so the wife ran away to live alone in the hills. And now the man could not bring back his wife, for he was not so great a wizard as she.
When he had come home, he sat himself down behind his mother's lamp, sitting on the bedplace, so that only his feet hung down over the floor. He was so troubled that he would not eat. And later in the evening, he said to his mother: "Take meat to Tugto and his wife, and ask one of them to magic away the ice." His mother went out and cut the meat of a black seal across at the middle.
And when she came in, she said: "It is my errand now to ask if one of you can magic away the ice." When these words were heard, Tugto said to his wife: "In this time of hunger we cannot send away meat that is given. You must magic away the ice." And she set about to do his bidding. To Qujâvârssuk's mother she said: "Tell all the people who can come here to come here and listen!"
Tugto was a big man, yet he had taken up so much of this that it was a hard matter for him to carry it when he took it on his back, and then he thought it must be enough for that depth of water. At last the ice lay firm, and when the ice lay firm, he began to make things ready to go out and fish. One morning he woke, and went away over land.
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