MAKING A SLEDGE 



to think. " This big sledge of mine is sixteen feet 

 long," I said ; " make me a sledge just as many inches 

 long, and two and a half inches broad instead of feet, 

 then it will be adsingoamarik (the very image)." 



I found him a little box, and he went off to start 

 his work. Presently he came back. "Tukkekan- 

 gilak," he said. 



" What is the matter, Efraim ? " 



" It is not like an Eskimo sledge." 



" If you make it sixteen inches by two and a 

 half, and three-quarters of an inch high, it will be 

 exactly like." 



"Atsuk," said Efraim. However, I persuaded 

 him to finish the little sledge, and it stands as an 

 ornament in my room to this day ; but Efraim was 

 not satisfied. " To your eyes it may look all right," 

 he said, " but to the eyes of the People it is all 

 wrong. It is too long and narrow" and that was 

 the end of the matter. But I know that it is an 

 exact model of my Eskimo travelling sledge, made 

 carefully to scale by Efraim's nimble fingers ; and 

 only the Eskimo sense of proportion is odd ! 



It was in the bitterest of the winter cold that I 

 made my first sledge journey. By this time the 

 people had invented a name for me; they said my 

 own name, " Tukkekangilak," had no meaning 

 which very possibly may be true, though their real 

 reason was that they dislike a name that ends in a 

 consonant, unless it be a " t " or a " k." I heard 

 various references to "Atta" and " Hoddo," which 

 were, I suppose, my own name Eskimo-ised; but 

 before long these dropped out and I became Aniasi- 

 orte, the Pain Hunter. And so, during the last days 



of January, the word went round that Aniasiorte 



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