The cripple Ourourengnak builds a snowhouse for the patrol.

snow-block that appeared to have
been made by human hands and
catapulted through a thin crust of
ice into the door of a buried snow-
house. A crippled Eskimo seemed to
materialize from nowhere and led
him within where, with Oriental
fatalism, he and his starving family
had resigned themselves to death. In
return for the Eskimo’s promise to
guide them to Arctic Bay, Joy gave the
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life within his family. Guided by the
cripple they headed north next day.

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Through a veil of writhing flakes
they espied, at last, the snow igloos of
the Iglulirmuits. Cavernous porches
of indigo erupted a shaggy horde of
fur-clad figures armed with ivory-
tipped harpoons and murderous
walrus-tusk snow-knives. Tumbling
out on the ice they ran towards the
strangers, brandishing their weapons
with hostile cries. The cripple held
aloft his empty hand in the peace
sign. Far from reassured, the natives
signalled the Kud-loo-nah to remain
where he was. Uneasily their Eskimo
guide hobbled forward to meet the
hostile horde. As they milled about
the greasy ambassador Joy listened
apprehensively to their guttural
speech.

“Chimo! Ashow you diddle? Hello.
How are you?” Suddenly _ their
clamorous greeting echoed back from
the white-walled dwellings.

“Ta-bow-you-adloo! Well, thank
you!” Drawing upon his slender
knowledge of the native tonque Joy
returned the greeting as they surged
towards him with childish glee. What
had the Kud-loo-nah come for, they

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An Iglultk hunter hauling a seal from its breathing hole.

demanded? Fox skins? No! Then it
must be whalebone or women. It was
always one of these things the Kud-
loo-nah wanted!

While the Iglulirmuits carried
shingabees and baggage into the snow-
house Joy crawled behind the crippled
guide through the snow-tunnel and
emerged into a capacious igloo lighted
with the ruddy flames of smoky
blubber-lamps. Almost overcome by
the rancid heat Joy made a desperate
effort to pull himself together, re-
alizing that, under the guise of
friendliness, these Eskimos thought
nothing of stabbing a fancied enemy
in the back. From a stone pot a broad-
hipped woman hooked out a chunk of
seal meat, politely licked the grease

off it and handed it to the Mountie,
followed by a musk-ox-horn ladle of
of musk-ox soup and squares of fat
white blubber.

The meal over, Joy held a council.
“What has become,” he demanded,
“of the red-headed trader who
stopped at your village just 33 moons
ago? And where is Quaquajuak with
whom Janes quarreled?”

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