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Updated: June 17, 2025
Such a worshipper had Ujarak in Ippegoo, a tall young man, of weak physical frame, and still weaker mental capacity. Ippegoo was not malevolent, like his master, but he was sufficiently wicked to laugh at his evil doings, and to assist him in his various plans, in the implicit belief that he was aiding a great and wise man.
I've heard," she replied, trying to smother the laughter. "Now, look here. You must promise me not to tell anybody," said the seaman earnestly, almost sternly. "Oh, I not tell," returned the old woman; "I love not Ujarak." "Ah! just so; then you're pretty safe not to tell," said Rooney. "No fear of Kannoa," remarked Angut, with a pleasant nod; "she never tells anything to anybody."
Lest the reader should be perplexed here, we may explain that some Eskimo ladies often make the wide tops of their long sealskin boots do duty for pockets. The party was still engaged in discussing the delicacy referred to, and commenting in pitiable tones on their situation, when Ujarak returned, bade them resume their places, jumped on the sledge, and continued to advance.
As it is, I don't care a puff of wind what they make of poor Ippegoo so long as they don't kill him; but I'm uneasy because I'm afraid the rascal Ujarak has some bad end in view in all this." "I'm quite sure of it," muttered Nuna, making a stab with her stick at the contents of her pot, as if Ujarak's heart were inside.
Ujarak noted the grin, and did not like it. Among the people there who gave strongest expression to their joy at the prospect of the good living in store for them, were several young and middle-aged females who sat in a corner grouped together, and conveyed their approval of what was said to each other by sundry smirks and smiles and nods of the head, which went far to prove that they constituted a little coterie or clique.
Being himself a master of deception, Ujarak suspected some trick, and slowly approached the giant bear with the intention of testing its reality in some trepidation, however, for he was naturally superstitious. When he had drawn near enough to touch it, he received a tremendous blow on the forehead, which laid him flat on his back in a partially stunned condition, with his head in Pussimek's lap.
Holding on to the tail with heroic resolution, while Pussi was already swinging in mid-air, the poor boy opened wide his eyes and mouth, and gave vent to a series of yells so tremendous that the hearts of Ujarak and Ippegoo leaped into their throats, as they rushed out of the cavern and hastened to the rescue. But another ear had been assailed by those cries.
Ujarak, feeling that he was suspected, and that his plan, therefore, must be given up for the time being, determined to set himself to work to allay suspicion by making himself generally useful, and giving himself up entirely to the festivities that were about to take place on the return of the men from their successful hunt.
"What could be more agreeable than to see the striving of two such good friends as Angut my host and Ujarak the angekok?"
Ippegoo thought that if he was really to be troubled in that way, the only difficulty would be to prevent people from knowing it, but observing that his master was getting angry, he wisely held his tongue, and listened with earnest attention while Ujarak related the details of the ordeal through which he was about to pass.
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