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Updated: June 11, 2025
Nunaga winced here, for she had timidly hoped that Angut had come to see her! "I would not," continued the visitor, "that Ujarak should be the first to speak to him, for he will poison his ears." "Yes, Ujarak is a dreadful liar," said Okiok solemnly, but without the slightest touch of ill feeling. "An awful liar," remarked Nuna softly.
It's not fair to risk her life." "We cannot leave her behind," said Angut, with a perplexed glance at the cowering figure on the sledge. "She could not return to the village on foot. That would be greater risk to her than going on with us." At this point the old woman looked up with a sort of pleasant grin, and croaked "Kannoa is not heavy. Take her with you.
And the strange thing is, that the people believe them!" "Why don't you believe them, Angut?" "I know not why." "And what do your kinsmen think about heaven?" asked Rooney. "They think it is supported on the peak of a lofty mountain in the north, on which it revolves.
Satisfied, apparently, with this assurance, the seaman took the old woman into his counsels, congratulating himself not a little on having found an ally in the very hut in which it had been arranged that the mysterious performance was to take place. Shortly after that Angut left.
Both were about equal in height and breadth of shoulder, but Angut was much the slimmer and more elegant about the waist, as well as considerably lighter than his adversary. It was in the bearing of Angut, however, that the chief difference lay.
How Rooney rendered "gimcracks" into Eskimo we are not prepared to say, but the whole description sent Nunaga and her mother into fits of giggling, for those simple-minded creatures of the icy north unlike sedate Europeans are easily made to laugh. At this point Angut struck in again, for he felt that the conversation was becoming frivolous.
Slight delays, he knew, were almost inevitable, so that, if the hunt should prove a failure, he would have little difficulty in accounting for it, and saving his credit. The most of his credulous and simple-minded hearers did not reflect on the significance of the back-door remark, but Angut did, and grinned a peculiar grin at the little fat boy, whom he chucked a second time under the chin.
"If this is true, how comes it that Ippegoo is here first? No doubt the legs of the simple one are the best part of him, but every one knows that they could not beat the dogs of Angut." "Issek is wise," said Kunelik pleasantly, "almost too wise! but no doubt the simple one can explain." "Speak, my son." "Yes, mother, I can explain.
Egede spoke now in the language of the Eskimos, having long before that time learned to speak it sufficiently well to be understood. "Angut," said Ujarak, after a few moments, "listen to me. I cannot live long. Before I go, let me tell you that Nunaga is good good good! She is true to you, and she has been very, very good to me.
"Hallo! hold on!" cried Rooney, as they went over a hummock with a crash that made Kannoa gasp, "you'll kill the poor thing if you " He stopped short, for another crash almost tumbled himself over the stern of the vehicle. Angut was roused to desperation.
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