The cinema : 1952 (1952)

114 THE CINEMA island?' 'We will find out,' I said, ' if there are deer on this island.5 'It will be good to have soft deerskins for clothing,' said my wife. 'Which way shall we go? to the north or to the south?' For a long time we did not know, and then my wife said : ' I have a feeling let us go north.' ' Ae,' said everyone, 'let us go north.' We were many days travelling for there was much hunting. All the way there were bear and there were seals and there were walrus, and at last we saw deer. And we made our kill, and my wife got the skins for our clothing. The days now were all light. The ice was scattering on the sea, and the warm sun bared the ground, and the big birds that honk came up from the south and they nested round the edges of the lakes and ponds. Everywhere were these big birds and their crying and their flying filled the sky, but in time they lost the feathers of their wings. Then we ran after them and ran them down. From driftwood and sealskins we made a kayak and I hunted the little islands off the shore, and on some there wrere walrus. From the tusks of the walrus we got the ivory for our sledge shoeing, ivory for our snow knives, ivory for our harpoons, and ivory for needles for my wife. There were bear. We made trips over the land far in from the sea, and in one camp, where we fished salmon from the stream, the bear were so many that I had to tie bones together on a string so that in the wind they would knock and make noise and so keep the bear away while we had our sleep. During the warmest days of the summer we were camped along a shore where there was a river in which there were swimming many salmon. We had just finished with our day's fishing when our children came running to us over the sand. Their eyes were big and they were saying: 'We have seen something strange, a monster which has come up