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Updated: May 22, 2025
The mother of Unga was crafty, and I grew angry at the shame in which I stood before my people. So that night I added till it became a great pile, and I hauled up my oomiak, which was of the value of twenty kayaks. And in the morning there was no pile. 'Then made I preparation for the wedding, and the people that lived even to the east came for the food of the feast and the potlatch token.
We fled away on the beam of the wind, with the schooner jamming still closer and plunging ahead three feet to our two. And upon her poop was the man with the mane of the sea lion, pressing the rails under with the canvas and laughing in his strength of life. And Unga was there I knew her on the moment but he sent her below when the cannons began to talk across the sea.
So, when the moon was up, I went down to the house of her mother, and looked upon the goods of Yash-Noosh, which were piled by the door the goods of Yash-Noosh, a strong hunter who had it in mind to be the father of the children of Unga. Other young men had piled their goods there and taken them away again; and each young man had made a pile greater than the one before.
As you know, I led him into the east him and Unga into the east where many have gone and few returned. I led them to the spot where the bones and the curses of men lie with the gold which they may not have. 'The way was long and the trail unpacked. Our dogs were many and ate much; nor could our sleds carry till the break of spring. We must come back before the river ran free.
He is-still in the snow. The two men looked at each other helplessly. 'Who is in the snow? 'She, Unga. She looked at me with the hate in her eye, and then 'Yes, yes. 'And then she took the knife, so; and once, twice she was weak. I traveled very slow. And there is much gold in that place, very much gold. 'Where is Unga? For all Malemute Kid knew, she might be dying a mile away.
He shook the man savagely, repeating again and again, 'Where is Unga? Who is Unga? 'She is in the snow. 'Go on! The Kid was pressing his wrist cruelly. 'So I would be in the snow but I had a debt to pay. It was heavy I had a-debt to pay a debt to pay I had-' The faltering monosyllables ceased as he fumbled in his pouch and drew forth a buckskin sack.
There were guns, both large and small, and powder and shot and shell, and bright axes and knives of steel, and cunning tools, and strange things the like of which I had never seen. When he showed me by sign that it was all mine, I thought him a great man to be so free; but he showed me also that Unga was to go away with him in his ship.
Unga was older than I by the age of four suns in the way we reckoned the years. I was only a stripling; but then I was a chief, and the son of a chief, and it did not matter. 'But a ship shoved her sails above the floor of the ocean, and grew larger with the breath of the wind. From her scuppers she ran clear water, and the men were in haste and worked hard at the pumps.
And as I spoke I saw the promise grow in her eyes, full and large like the break of dawn. And I read pity there, the tenderness of woman, the love, the heart and the soul of Unga. And I was a stripling again, for the look was the look of Unga as she ran up the beach, laughing, to the home of her mother. The stern unrest was gone, and the hunger, and the weary waiting. 'The time was met.
Every loose and breakable thing had been ground to splinters as though by iron slugs in a whirling cylinder. To this day, from Dawson to the Straits, from Unga to the Arctics, men tell of the combat wherever they foregather at flaring camp- fires or in dingy bunkhouses; and although some scout the tale, there are others who saw it and can swear to its truth.
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