They left five-and-twenty seal carcasses buried in the ice of the beach , all ready for use , and hurried back to their people . The dogs showed them the way as soon as Kotuko told them what was expected , and though there was no sign of a landmark , in two days they were giving tongue outside Kadlu 's house . Only three dogs answered them ; the others had been eaten , and the houses were all dark . But when Kotuko shouted , `` Ojo ! '' -LRB- boiled meat -RRB- , weak voices replied , and when he called the muster of the village name by name , very distinctly , there were no gaps in it . An hour later the lamps blazed in Kadlu 's house ; snow-water was heating ; the pots were beginning to simmer , and the snow was dripping from the roof , as Amoraq made ready a meal for all the village , and the boy-baby in the hood chewed at a strip of rich nutty blubber , and the hunters slowly and methodically filled themselves to the very brim with seal-meat . Kotuko and the girl told their tale . The two dogs sat between them , and whenever their names came in , they cocked an ear apiece and looked most thoroughly ashamed of themselves . A dog who has once gone mad and recovered , the Inuit say , is safe against all further attacks . `` So the tornaq did not forget us , '' said Kotuko . `` The storm blew , the ice broke , and the seal swam in behind the fish that were frightened by the storm . 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 .
XXXXX 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 .
Amoraq Inuit Kotuko Ojo attacks seal-meat snow-water sorcerer storm tornaq