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Updated: June 11, 2025
At present you tell me your hut is closed because you have no wife no kinswoman." "That is true," returned the Eskimo; "my mother is dead; my father was killed; I have no brothers, no sisters. But when I am at home old Kannoa cooks for me. She is a good woman, and can make us comfortable." "Just so, Angut. I'll be content to have the old woman for a nurse as long as I need one.
This disease takes the bad forms I have mentioned, and many other bad forms one of which is murder." Angut emphasised the last word and paused, but did not look at the robber beside him, for he knew that the arrow would reach its mark. Then he resumed "The Kablunet has brought to us the better knowledge of God.
Not knowing what to say, he changed the subject by mentioning the object of his visit. At once Angut turned, and gave undivided attention to the subject, while the seaman described his recent conversation with Okiok. As he concluded, a peculiar look flitted across Angut's countenance. "I guess his reason," he said. "Yes; what may it be, think you?" "He fears to meet Okiok in a singing duel."
The last to disappear was Kunelik, whose tail flapped on the door-post like a small pistol-shot as she doubled round it and scrambled out, leaving Rooney, Angut, Kannoa, and Ippegoo to enjoy the situation. When the lamps were rekindled by Kannoa, it was discovered that the old lady's nostrils were twitching and her throat contracting in a remarkable manner, with smothered laughter.
"Well, then, we put down for that w-a-l-r-u-s; and there you have it walrus; nothing simpler!" The perplexed look returned, and Angut said "That is not very easy to understand. Yet I see something always the same marks for the same beast; other marks for other beasts?" "Just so. You've hit it!" exclaimed Rooney, quite pleased with the intelligence of his pupil.
Angut never did so of his, although no other man could hold a candle perhaps we should say a lamp to him in the matter of daring. It signified not that Eskimos in general were in the habit of treating friendless widows and orphans ill, even robbing as well as neglecting them, Angut always treated well those with whom he had to do.
"Has it seen you?" asked Angut, as they all ran out. "I think not. From the way it walks, I think it has no suspicion of any one being on the berg." In a few seconds they reached the point of the promontory or cliff in which their cave lay, and each member of the party peeped round with excessive caution, and there, sure enough, they beheld a white Polar bear of truly formidable size.
Angut, on the other hand, was perfectly self-possessed and subdued, but his heaving chest, quivering nostrils, compressed lips, and frowning brows told that a volcano of emotion raged within. Turning suddenly to Okiok, he seized him by both arms as if his hands were vices.
Running back, they turned the dogs into the fresh track, and soon came to the place where Ujarak had joined the women. Angut pointed to the footprints with a gleam of unusual ferocity in his eyes. For some time they could easily follow the track, and went along at a rapid pace; but when it led them to the point where it joined other tracks, the difficulty of following became great.
But no one suffered because of Angut's superior penetration, for he was too amiable to hurt the feelings of a mosquito. After all that we have said, the reader will perhaps be prepared to expect that Angut never opened his mouth save to drop words of love and wisdom. Not so. Angut was modest to excess.
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