Now the new seal-holes are not two days distant . Let the good hunters go to-morrow and bring back the seal I have speared -- twenty-five seal buried in the ice . When we have eaten those we will all follow the seal on the floe . '' `` What do YOU do ? '' said the sorcerer in the same sort of voice as he used to Kadlu , richest of the Tununirmiut . Kadlu looked at the girl from the North , and said quietly , `` WE build a house . '' He pointed to the north-west side of Kadlu 's house , for that is the side on which the married son or daughter always lives . The girl turned her hands palm upward , with a little despairing shake of her head . She was a foreigner , picked up starving , and could bring nothing to the housekeeping . Amoraq jumped from the bench where she sat , and began to sweep things into the girl 's lap -- stone lamps , iron skin-scrapers , tin kettles , deer-skins embroidered with musk-ox teeth , and real canvas-needles such as sailors use -- the finest dowry that has ever been given on the far edge of the Arctic Circle , and the girl from the North bowed her head down to the very floor . `` Also these ! '' said Kotuko , laughing and signing to the dogs , who thrust their cold muzzles into the girl 's face . `` Ah , '' said the angekok , with an important cough , as though he had been thinking it all over . `` As soon as Kotuko left the village I went to the Singing-House and sang magic . I sang all the long nights , and called upon the Spirit of the Reindeer . MY singing made the gale blow that broke the ice and drew the two dogs toward Kotuko when the ice would have crushed his bones . MY song drew the seal in behind the broken ice . My body lay still in the quaggi , but my spirit ran about on the ice , and guided Kotuko and the dogs in all the things they did . I did it . '' Everybody was full and sleepy , so no one contradicted ; and the angekok , by virtue of his office , helped himself to yet another lump of boiled meat , and lay down to sleep with the others in the warm , well-lighted , oil-smelling home .
***** Now XXXXX , who drew very well in the Inuit fashion , scratched pictures of all these adventures on a long , flat piece of ivory with a hole at one end .
Circle Kadlu Kotuko North Reindeer Tununirmiut left quaggi skin-scrapers sorcerer