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"Besides," whispered Yakaga, when the Pole, with his guard, had disappeared among the spruce trees, "when you have learned the medicine you can easily destroy him." "But how can I destroy him?" Makamuk argued. "His medicine will not let me destroy him." "There will be some part where he has not rubbed the medicine," was Yakaga's reply. "We will destroy him through that part. It may be his ears.
And when his pursuer dragged his body to the surface, he gave a mighty cry, for, lo! it was his brother-in-law whom he had pursued, for he was Yakaga. Then fearing the terrible rage of Zampa's father, he dared not return with the body, so he left it with the overturned canoe in the kelp and weeds. Kitt-a-youx he bore with him to his own island.
Very well; we will thrust a spear in one ear and out the other. Or it may be his eyes. Surely the medicine will be much too strong to rub on his eyes." The chief nodded. "You are wise, Yakaga. If he possesses no other devil- things, we will then destroy him."
The other half had passed under the torture. Only Subienkow remained, or Subienkow and Big Ivan, if that whimpering, moaning thing in the snow could be called Big Ivan. Subienkow caught Yakaga grinning at him. There was no gainsaying Yakaga. The mark of the lash was still on his face. After all, Subienkow could not blame him, but he disliked the thought of what Yakaga would do to him.
And there was Yakaga awaiting him, too, grinning at him even now in anticipation Yakaga, whom only last week he had kicked out of the fort, and upon whose face he had laid the lash of his dog-whip. Yakaga would attend to him. Doubtlessly Yakaga was saving for him more refined tortures, more exquisite nerve- racking. Ah! that must have been a good one, from the way Ivan screamed.
"Yakaga, give him your finger," Makamuk commanded. "There be plenty of fingers lying around," Yakaga grunted, indicating the human wreckage in the snow of the score of persons who had been tortured to death. "It must be the finger of a live man," the Pole objected. "Then shall you have the finger of a live man." Yakaga strode over to the Cossack and sliced off a finger.
Makamuk and Yakaga crouched beside him, noting the quantities and kinds of the ingredients he dropped into the pot of boiling water. "You must be careful that the moss-berries go in first," he explained. "And oh, yes, one other thing the finger of a man. Here, Yakaga, let me cut off your finger." But Yakaga put his hands behind him and scowled. "Just a small finger," Subienkow pleaded.
But Zampa heard not his father's voice and pursued diving birds, and, lo! he was far from land and the dark fell. He sailed to the nearest shore and beheld the village of Yakaga, where the people of his sister's husband made him welcome, though Yakaga was not within his hut.
He had long had a death feud with people of the next totem, but the bold warrior Yakaga, chieftain of the tribe, married the toyon's daughter, and there was no more feud. Zampa was the son of Kat-haya-koochat, and his pride. He built for this son a fine bidarka, and the boy launched it on the sea. His father watched him sail and called him to return, lest evil befall.
And my rifle must be returned to me. If you do not like the price, in a little while the price will grow." Yakaga whispered to the chief. "But how can I know your medicine is true medicine?" Makamuk asked. "It is very easy. First, I shall go into the woods " Again Yakaga whispered to Makamuk, who made a suspicious dissent. "You can send twenty hunters with me," Subienkow went on.
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