‘Angutivaun Taina’

[This is a very free translation of the Song of the Returning Hunter, as the men used to sing it after seal-spearing. The Inuit always repeat things over and over again.]

Our gloves are stiff with the frozen blood,

Our furs with the drifted snow,

As we come in with the seal — the seal!

In from the edge of the floe¹.

Au jana! Aua! Oha! Haq!

And the yelping² dog-teams go,

And the long whips crack, and the men come back,

Back from the edge of the floe!

We tracked our seal to his secret place,

We heard him scratch below,

We made our mark, and we watched beside,

Out on the edge of the floe.

We raised our lance when he rose to breathe,

We drove it downward — so!

And we played him thus, and we killed him thus,

Out on the edge of the floe.

Our gloves are glued with the frozen blood,

Our eyes with the drifting snow;

But we come back to our wives again,

Back from the edge of the floe!

Au jana! Aua! Oha! Haq!

And the loaded dog-teams go,

And the wives can hear their men come back.

Back from the edge of the floe!

1 floe   

n.大片浮冰

参考例句：

• Two penguins are standing on ice floe.两只企鹅站在一块浮冰上。
• Somehow the seal manages to reach a tiny ice floe.不知何故，海豹设法到达了一块小浮冰上。

2 yelping   

v.发出短而尖的叫声( yelp的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• In the middle of the table sat a little dog, shaking its paw and yelping. 在桌子中间有一只小狗坐在那儿，抖着它的爪子，汪汪地叫。 来自辞典例句
• He saved men from drowning and you shake at a cur's yelping. 他搭救了快要溺死的人们，你呢，听到一条野狗叫唤也瑟瑟发抖。 来自互联网