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THE STORY OF GOMOGK THE ESKIMO II3
darkness, for we had no lamp, we lay down to sleep. 'It is funny,' said someone, 'the land is so still.' For a long time we could not sleep because the land was so still.
There was much hunting to find good stones. We searched far though we were all weak, and not in one day did we find the good stones, but we found them just the same, and my young sons found a piece of driftwood buried in the snow, and I made a knife of the stones and a spear-head, and we cut the driftwood and at last we made a harpoon. Everyone laughed and said they had seen better harpoons. That night when we all lay down to sleep, someone said : ' It will be good when we get seal,' and then someone said: 'Yes, it will be good when we get oil.' 'Yes,' said someone, 'it is the oil we need most. Hunger is one thing, but these nights of darkness are the worst.' We went to sleep.
With the daylight coming I took my leader dog to find me a breathing hole of the seal, and not far out on the ice he stopped and he smelt a hole. And there I waited all day until the seal had made his rounds of his breathing holes, and at last the bubbles of his breathing began to rise in my hole, and I took up my harpoon and I killed the seal.
There was the darkness in the igloo when I clubbed my way against the dogs through the long tunnel dragging my seal. Everyone made noise, and the dogs in the tunnel made much noise. And there was talking and laughing and my wife soon got oil, and from her stones struck fire, and there was light in our igloo and everyone smiling could see one another. The seal which lay before us was a big seal, and we fed our dogs, and we kept on eating and sleeping and eating. It was all mixed up together.
We made more knives and better knives in these days, and we made more harpoons. And on all these days there were sealsl 'The dogs do not show their ribs now,' said my wife, 'and did you ever see such strong children? But we soon must get skins for new clothing. Are there deer on this