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Updated: June 1, 2025
In the spirit-land Angut and Nunaga, Okiok, Nuna, Simek, and all the Innuit friends, when washed in the blood of Jesus, will again see the face of Ridroonee, and rejoice." This was the first time that Angut had distinctly declared his faith, and it afforded matter for profound satisfaction to Rooney, who grasped and warmly shook his friend's hand.
They are dwarfs, and are frequently seen between Iglulik and Netchillik, where the Anganidjen live, an Innuit tribe whose women are in the habit of tracing rings around their eyes. There are men and women among the Uissuit, and they live in deep water, never coming to the surface.
In each was the remains of a skeleton in the last stages of decay. It had evidently been tied up in the Innuit fashion to get it into its narrow house, but all the bones, with the exception of the skull, were reduced to a soft paste, or even entirely gone.
The natives style themselves Innuit, i.e. men; and foreigners, Kablunat or inferior beings.
"I had hardly put on my Greenland clothes when five of them arrived in their own boats I went to meet them, and said, 'I have long desired to see you. They replied, 'Here is an innuit. I answered, 'I am your countryman and friend. They rejoined, 'Thou art indeed our countryman! The joy on both sides was very great, and we continued in conversation for a considerable time, when at last they invited me to accompany them to an island about an hour's row from the shore, where I should find their wives and children, who would give me a cordial welcome.
"The Innuit have big understandings," said Simek, with a bland smile, describing a great circle with his outspread arms; "do not fear to try them." "Well, one village we have," resumed Rooney, "is as broad as from here to the house of Okiok under the great cliff, and it is equally long."
There was reason for the increase of surprise with which this was received by the two natives, for this time the foreigner spoke to them in their own language. "Is the Kablunet a messenger from heaven," asked Okiok, with increased solemnity, "that he speaks with the tongue of the Innuit?" "No, my friend," replied Rooney, with a faint smile; "I bring no message either from heaven or anywhere else.
We are not informed whether the device would have proved a successful decoy to the seals, for before any had been lured within range, another Innuit, having seen the sealskin legs gesticulating on the ice edge, naturally mistook them for the real thing, fired with regrettable accuracy, and went out to find a dead cousin.
"Don't you try that! It doesn't go in this outfit. Anvik, tell your friend that someone will get knocked in the head if he steals anything in this camp." The guide uttered a volley of protest in Innuit, which the assembled squaws, papooses and bucks received in stoical silence, and with impassive faces. "They don't seem to be particularly impressed by your lecture," said Ned. "Him no take.
"Are you a guide?" asked the Professor. "Me guide." "How old are you?" "Twenty year." "I think that is about it," said the store-keeper. "These natives never know their age exactly." "You look to me more like an Eskimo than an Indian," observed Professor Zepplin. "Me Innuit Siwash. You savvy me?" Stacy scratched his head. "Tell him to talk United States," suggested the fat boy.
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