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"They were starving," returned Ujarak quickly; "but two walruses and four seals were brought in yesterday and my torngak has told me that he will point out where many more are to be found if I consult him on the night of the feast. Will you come back with me?" Okiok glanced at the Kablunet. "I cannot leave my guest," he said. "True, but we can take him with us." "Impossible.
The event which had so suddenly interrupted the singing duel was a matter of secret satisfaction to Ujarak, for he felt that he was no match for Okiok, and although he had intended to fight the battle out to the best of his ability, he knew that his ultimate defeat was so probable that its abrupt termination before that event was a piece of great good-fortune.
"I'm glad to hear you speak well of her," said Rooney, "for I don't like to think ill of any one if I can help it; but sometimes I can't help it. Now, there's your angekok Ujarak: I cannot think well of him. Have you a good word to say in his favour?" "No, not one. He is bad through and through from the skin to the bone.
When a man talks upon the weather, the ice is fairly broken even in Arctic regions and from that well-nigh universal starting-point Ujarak went on to make a few more remarks. He did so very sternly, however, as though to protest against the idea that he was softening to the smallest extent.
With much affectation of confidence, the wizard replied that there were two kinds of men who were fit to be angekoks men with weak minds and warm hearts, or men with strong minds and cold hearts. "And have you the strong mind?" asked Ippegoo. "Yes, of course, very strong and also the cold heart," replied Ujarak.
Thus appealed to, Okiok's eldest son laid down the piece of blubber with which he had been engaged, nodded his head several times, and said, "Yes, he will be able to run, and jump soon." "And he speaks our language well," said Okiok, with a look of great interest. "I know it," returned his friend; "Ujarak told us about that. It is because of that, that I have come at once to see him."
One morning, on rounding one of those bluff precipitous capes which jut out from the western coast of Greenland into Baffin's Bay, they came unexpectedly in sight of a band of Eskimos who were travelling northwards. Ujarak pulled up at once, and for some moments seemed uncertain what to do.
The spot chanced to be only a short distance beyond the place where the wizard had met Ippegoo, but the sea-shore there was so covered with hummocks of ice that Nunaga had approached without being observed by either the wizard or the pupil. It was not more than a few minutes after Ippegoo had left on his errand to herself that she came suddenly in sight of Ujarak.
"Glad am I you were in time, Ippegoo," said the seaman, shouldering the little girl, while the young Eskimo put the boy on his back, "but I thought that you and Ujarak were away south with the hunters. What has brought you back so soon? Nothing wrong, I trust?" "No; all goes well," returned Ippegoo, as they went towards the village. "We have only come back to to "
"My brother must indeed be a great angekok, for he seems to know all things. But we did not come from near the land where the Kablunets have built their huts. We have come from it," said the matter-of-fact leader. "Did I not say that?" returned Ujarak promptly. "No; you said near it whereas we came from it, from inside of itself."
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