The night that followed the day of which we have given an account in the last chapter was a night of rest to Edith, but not to the Esquimaux.
Scarcely allowing themselves time to harness their dogs, after the news reached them, they set off for the scene of action in a body. Every sledge2 was engaged, every able-bodied male and female started. None were left in camp except the sick, of whom there were few; and the aged3, of whom there were fewer. While engaged in the hurried preparations for departure the women sang with delight, for they had been living on very short allowance for some weeks past, and starvation had been threatening them; so that the present success diffused4 among these poor creatures a universal feeling of joy. But their preparations were not numerous. A short scene of excited bustle5 followed Annatock’s arrival, a few yells from the dogs at starting, and the deserted6 camp was so silent and desolate7 that it seemed as if human beings had not been there for centuries.
It did not continue long, however, in this state. Two or three hours later, and the first of the return parties arrived, groaning8 under the burdens they carried and dragged behind them. The walrus10-flesh was packed on the dog-sledges11; but as for the few seals that had been caught, they were sledges to themselves—cords being tied to their tails, to which a dozen natives attached themselves, and dragged the carcasses over the snow.
Peetoot, whose spirit that night seemed to be intoxicated12 with success, and who felt that he was the lion of the night (after Annatock!), seated himself astride of one of the dead seals, and was dragged into camp on this novel sledge, shouting a volley of unintelligible13 jargon14 at the top of his voice, in the midst of which “Eeduck” frequently resounded15. At length the last lingerer arrived, and then began a feast of the most extraordinary kind. The walrus-flesh was first conveyed to the igloo of Annatock, where it was cut up and distributed among the natives. The women seemed quite frantic16 with joy, and went about from hut to hut embracing one another, by way of congratulation. Soon the lamps of the village were swimming with oil, the steaks stewing17 and roasting, the children provided with pieces of raw blubber to keep them quiet while the larger portions were being cooked, and the entire community gormandising and rejoicing as savages18 are wont19 to do when suddenly visited with plenty in the midst of starvation.
During all this scene, Edith went about from hut to hut enjoying herself. Nay20, reader, be not horrified21; thou knowest not the pliable22 and accommodating nature of humanity. Edith did not enjoy the filth23 by which she was surrounded—far from it; neither did she enjoy the sight of raw blubber being sucked by little babies, especially by her own favourite; but she did enjoy the sight of so much plenty where, but a few hours ago, starvation had begun to threaten a visit; and she did enjoy and heartily25 sympathise with the undoubted and great happiness of her hospitable26 friends. A very savoury dish, with a due proportion of lean to the fat, cut specially24 to suit her taste, smoked on Eeduck’s table that night, and Peetoot and the baby helped her to eat it. Really it would be a matter of nice calculation to ascertain27 whether Peetoot or the baby laughed most on this jovial28 occasion. Undoubtedly29 the former had the best of it in regard to mere30 noise; nevertheless the pipe of the latter was uncommonly31 shrill32, and at times remarkably33 racy and obstreperous34. But as the hours flew by, the children throughout the camp generally fell asleep, while their seniors sat quietly and contentedly35 round their kettles and lamps, eating and slumbering36 by turns. The amount of food consumed was enormous, and quite beyond the belief of men accustomed to the appetites of temperate37 zones; but we beg them to remember that arctic frosts require to be met with arctic stimulants38, and of these an immense quantity of unctuous39 food is the best.
Next morning the Esquimaux were up and away by daybreak, with their dogs and sledges, to bring home the remainder of the walrus-meat; for these poor people are not naturally improvident40, and do not idle their time in luxurious41 indolence until necessity urges them forth42 again in search of food. In this respect they are superior to Indians, who are notoriously improvident and regardless of the morrow.
This day was signalised by another piece of success on the part of Annatock and his nephew, who went to the scene of yesterday’s battle on foot. Edith remained behind, having resolved to devote herself entirely43 to the baby, to make up for her neglect of the previous day. On reaching the place where the walrus had been slain44, Annatock cut off and bound up a portion with which he intended to return to the camp. While he was thus employed, along with a dozen or more of his countrymen, Peetoot came running towards him, saying that he thought he saw a seal lying on the ice far ahead. Having a harpoon45 and two spears with them, Annatock left his work and followed his nephew to the spot where it was supposed to be lying. But on reaching the place they found that it was gone, and a few bells floating at the surface of the hole showed where it had made its descent to the element below. With the characteristic indifference46 of a man accustomed to the vicissitudes47 and the disappointments of a hunter’s life, the elder Esquimau uttered a grunt48 and turned away. But he had not proceeded more than a few paces when his eye became riveted49 on the track of some animal on the ice, which appeared to his practised eye to be quite fresh. Upon examination this proved to be the case, and Annatock spoke50 earnestly for a few minutes with his nephew. The boy appeared from his gestures to be making some determined51 remarks, and seemed not a little hurt at the doubting way in which his uncle shook his head. At length Peetoot seized a spear, and, turning away, followed the track of the animal with a rapid and determined air; while Annatock, grasping the other spear, followed in the boy’s track.
A brisk walk of half an hour over the ice and hummocks53 of the sea carried them out of sight of their companions, but did not bring them up with the animal of which they were in chase. At length Peetoot halted, and stooped to scrutinise the track more attentively54. As he did so an enormous white bear stalked out from behind a neighbouring hummock52 of ice, and after gazing at him for a second or two, turned round and walked slowly away.
The elder Esquimau cast a doubtful glance at his nephew, while he lowered the point of his spear and seemed to hesitate; but the boy did not wait. Levelling his spear, he uttered a wild shout and ran towards the animal, which instantly turned towards the approaching enemy with a look of defiance55. If Annatock had entertained any doubts of his nephew’s courage before, he had none now; so, casting aside all further thought on the subject, he ran forward along with him to attack the bear. This was a matter attended with much danger, however, and there was some reason in the man feeling a little uncertainty56 as to the courage of a youth who, he was aware, now faced a bear for the first time in his life!
At first the two hunters advanced side by side towards the fierce-looking monster, but as they drew near they separated, and approached one on the right, the other on the left of the bear. As it was determined that Annatock should give the death-wound, he went towards the left side and hung back a moment, while Peetoot advanced to the right. When about three yards distant the bear rose. The action had a powerful and visible effect upon the boy; for as polar bears are comparatively long-bodied and short-legged, their true proportions are not fully57 displayed until they rear on their hind9 legs. It seemed as if the animal actually grew taller and more enormous in the act of rising, and the boy’s cheek blanched58 while he shrank backwards59 for a moment. It was only for a moment, however. A quick word of encouragement from Annatock recalled him. He stepped boldly forward as the bear was glancing savagely60 from side to side, uncertain which enemy to attack first, and, thrusting his lance forward, pricked61 it sharply on the side. This decided the point. With a ferocious62 growl63 the animal turned to fall upon its insignificant64 enemy. In doing so its left shoulder was fully exposed to Annatock, who, with a dart65 like lightning, plunged66 his spear deep into its heart. A powerful shudder67 shook the monster’s frame as it fell dead upon the ice.
Annatock stood for a few minutes leaning on his spear, and regarding the bear with a grim look of satisfaction; while Peetoot laughed, and shouted, and danced around it like a maniac68. How long he would have continued these wild demonstrations69 it is difficult to say—probably until he was exhausted—but his uncle brought them to a speedy termination by bringing the butt-end of his spear into smart contact with Peetoot’s flank. With a howl, in which consternation70 mingled71 with his glee, the boy darted72 away over the ice like a reindeer73 to convey the glad news to his friends, and to fetch a sledge for the bear’s carcass.
On returning to the village there was immediately instituted another royal feast, which continued from day to day, gradually decreasing in joyous74 intensity75 as the provender76 decreased in bulk, until the walruses77, the bear, and the seals were entirely consumed.
Soon after this the weather became decidedly mild, and the power of the sun’s rays was so great that the snow on the island and the ice on the sea began to be resolved into water. During this period several important changes took place in the manners and customs of the Esquimaux. The women, who had worn deerskin shoes during the winter, put on their enormous waterproof78 summer boots. The men, when out on the ice in search of seals, used a pair of wooden spectacles, with two narrow slits79 to peep through, in order to protect their eyes from the snow-blindness caused by the glare of the sun on the ice and snow—a complaint which is apt to attack all arctic travellers in spring if not guarded against by some such appliance as the clumsy wooden spectacles of the Esquimaux. Active preparations were also made for the erection of skin summer tents, and the launching of kayaks and oomiaks. Moreover, little boys were forbidden to walk, as they had been wont to do, on the tops of the snow-houses, lest they should damage the rapidly-decaying roofs; but little boys in the far north inherit that tendency to disobedience which is natural to the children of Adam the world over, and on more than one occasion, having ventured to run over the igloos, were caught in the act by the thrusting of a leg now and then through the roofs thereof, to the indignation of the inmates80 below.
A catastrophe81 of this sort happened to poor Peetoot not long after the slaying82 of the polar bear, and brought the winter camp to an abrupt83 termination.
Edith had been amusing herself in her house of ice all the morning with her adopted baby, and was in the act of feeding it with a choice morsel84 of seal-fat, partially85 cooked, to avoid doing violence to her own prejudices, and very much under-done in order to suit the Esquimau baby’s taste—when Peetoot rushed violently into the hut, shouted Eeduck with a boisterous86 smile, seized the baby in his arms, and carried it off to its mother. Edith was accustomed to have it thus torn from her by the boy, who was usually sent as a messenger when Kaga happened to desire the loan of her offspring.
The igloo in which Kaga and her relations dwelt was the largest in the village. It was fully thirty feet in diameter. The passage leading to it was a hundred yards long, by five feet wide and six feet high, and from this passage branched several others of various lengths, leading to different storehouses and to other dwellings87. The whiteness of the snow of which this princely mansion88 and its offices were composed was not much altered on the exterior89; but in the interior a long winter of cooking and stewing and general filthiness90 had turned the walls and roofs quite black. Being somewhat lazy, Peetoot preferred the old plan of walking over this palace to going round by the entrance, which faced the south. Accordingly, he hoisted91 the fat and smiling infant on his shoulder, and bounded over the dome-shaped roof of Kaga’s igloo. Alas92 for the result of disobedience! No sooner had his foot touched the key-stone of the arch than down it went. Dinner was being cooked and consumed by twenty people below at the time. The key-stone buried a joint93 of walrus-beef, and instantly Peetoot and the baby lay sprawling94 on the top of it. But this was not all. The roof, unable to support its own weight, cracked and fell in with a dire95 crash. The men, women, and children struggled to disentomb themselves, and in doing so mixed up the oil of the lamps, the soup of their kettles, the black soot96 of the walls and roof, the dogs that had sneaked97 in, the junks of cooked, half-cooked, and raw blubber, and their own hairy-coated persons, into a conglomerate98 so atrocious to behold99, or even think upon, that we are constrained100 to draw a curtain over the scene and spare the reader’s feelings. This event caused the Esquimaux to forsake101 the igloos, and pitch their skin tents on a spot a little to the southward of their wintering ground, which, being more exposed to the sun’s rays, was now free from snow.
They had not been encamped here more than three days when an event occurred which threw the camp into deep grief for a time. This was the loss of their great hunter, Annatock, the husband of Kaga. One of those tremendous north-west gales102, which now and then visit the arctic seas and lands with such devastating104 fury, had set in while Annatock was out on the ice-floe105 in search of seals. Many of his comrades had started with him that day, but being a bold man, he had pushed beyond them all. When the gale103 came on the Esquimau hunters prepared to return home as fast as possible, fearing that the decaying ice might break up and drift away with them out to sea. Before starting they were alarmed to find that the seaward ice was actually in motion. It was on this ice that Annatock was employed; and his countrymen would fain have gone to warn him of his danger, but a gap of thirty feet already separated the floe from the main ice, and although they could perceive their friend in the far distance, busily employed on the ice, they could not make their voices heard. As the gale increased the floe drifted faster out to sea, and Annatock was observed running anxiously towards the land; but before he reached the edge of the ice-raft on which he stood, the increasing distance and the drifting clouds of snow hid him from view. Then his companions, fearful for their own safety, hastened back to the camp with the sad news.
At first Kaga seemed quite inconsolable, and Edith exerted herself as a comforter without success; but as time wore on the poor woman’s grief abated106, and hope began to revive within her bosom107. She recollected108 that the event which had befallen her husband had befallen some of her friends before in exactly similar circumstances, and that, although on many occasions the result had been fatal, there were not a few instances in which the lost ones had been driven on their ice-raft to distant parts of the shore, and after months, sometimes years, of hardship and suffering, had returned to their families and homes.
Still this hope was at best a poor one. For the few instances there were of return from such dangers, there were dozens in which the poor Esquimaux were never heard of more; and the heart of the woman sank within her as she thought of the terrible night on which her husband was lost, and the great, stormy, ice-laden sea, over whose surging bosom he was drifted. But the complex machinery109 of this world is set in motion and guided by One whose power and wisdom infinitely110 transcend111 those of the most exalted112 of His creatures; and it is a truth well worthy113 of being reiterated114 and re-impressed upon our memories, that in His hands those events that seem most adverse115 to man often turn out to be for his good.
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aged
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bustle
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intoxicated
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resounded
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contentedly
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morsel
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conglomerate
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gales
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machinery
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