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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Angut," said Rooney, as they walked one evening by the margin of the sea, "it grieves me to the heart to leave you; but the best of friends must part. Even for your sake, much though I love you, I cannot remain here, now that I have got the chance of returning to my dear wife and bairns and my native land." "But we shall meet again," replied Angut earnestly.
It is the substance of an actual speech made by a Greenlander to the Moravian brethren in 1737. If true love is, according to the proverb, more distinctly proved to be true by the extreme roughness of its course, then must the truth of the love of Angut and Nunaga be held as proved beyond all question, for its course was a very cataract from beginning to end.
He spoke no word, but from that moment Rooney knew that Angut was also fond of Nunaga; and he made up his mind to aid him to the utmost of his capacity both in love and war for sympathy is not confined to races, creeds, or classes, but gloriously permeates the whole human family. It was at this point that the crash described by Ippegoo occurred.
"No use to push on, Angut," remarked Rooney, as his friend pulled up; "we must have patience." "Yes; the moon will be up soon," returned his friend; "we will now rest and feed." The resting meant sitting there in the dark on the side of the sleigh, and the feeding consisted in devouring a lump of seal's flesh raw. Although not very palatable, this was eminently profitable food, as Angut well knew.
If they break up while we are on them we shall be lost. Will Ridroonee agree to take old Kannoa back to her friends, and I will go forward with the sledge alone?" "What say you, Kannoa?" asked Rooney, turning to the old woman with a half-humorous look. "Kannoa says she will live or die with Angut and Ridroonee," she replied firmly. "You're a trump!" exclaimed the seaman in English.
At this amazing depth of slyness on his part, Ippegoo fell into another hearty though inaudible laugh, after which he went off to communicate his news to Okiok and Angut, but these worthies having gone out to visit some snares and traps, no one knew whither, he was obliged to seek counsel of Simek.
When the time comes for the Creator to reveal His plans to man, surely it will be found that no word spoken, no cup of water given, by these Danish and Moravian Christians, shall lose its appropriate reward. When at last the northern men and their families stood on the sea-shore, with their kayaks, oomiaks and families ready, Angut stood forth, and, grasping Hans Egede by the hand, said earnestly
We might outrun them, though I don't feel quite as supple as I used to; but we should barely arrive before them in time to warn the camp, and should then be almost unfit to fight." To this Angut replied that they could go inland over the hills, and so come down on the camp in rear. It might not, he thought, add much to the distance. This plan was quickly adopted and put in practice.
He was merely condemned, in the meantime, to be taken to his own people as a prisoner, and then let go free with a rebuke. "But how are we to carry him there?" asked Egede. "He cannot walk, and we must not delay." "That's true," said Rooney; "and it will never do to burden the women's boat with him. It is too full already." "Did he not say that he had his kayak with him?" asked Angut.
After having talked the matter over for some time, Angut shook his head, and said that Ujarak must be closely watched. "More than that," said Rooney, with decision; "he must be stultified."
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