The cinema : 1952 (1952)

THE STORY OF COMOGK THE ESKIMO 1 1 7 helping him drag in his first seal not a small seal, but a big square flipper seal. We could not believe he could kill such a big seal. 'Yes,' said Annunglung, 'there was much fighting, but he killed him I sat over one breathing hole and he sat over another, and when the seal came to his hole he stood up and struck down with his harpoon. The seal sounded and dived, so fast with his line he was pulled to the ice, so hard I thought surely some of his bones were broken. But he had the end of his line wrapped around him where he lay over the hole. I got him to his feet, but he was pulled down again and again. At last he was mostly on his feet, and he pulled in some of his line, and he pulled in more of his line and then more of his line and then it came easy, and at last the seal was dead.5 My son said that anyone could have killed such a seal ~ a child could have killed almost such a seal. But my wife said: 'Lie down beside it; it's longer than you.5 But my son said: 'My dogs, they are hungry,5 and he crawled out of the tunnel with all the children behind him, and my wife turned to me and said : 'Comock, our son is now a hunter.5 'No,5 I said, 'but maybe he will be before the end of this winter there is still his first walrus and there is still his first bear.5 During the moon of the shortest days a big storm blowing again from our old land drove in big fields of ice and piled it high along the shores. At sea there was no open water for a long time, and that was the end of our good hunting. For many days I was hunting with my sons on the ice for seals, but all that we got was hardly enough to keep us alive. In these days Annunglung began to stay at home something had come over him. Annunglung was always a silent man, never speaking much, not even of his lost wife and his lost children ; but now, saitl my wife, he would sit in the igloo all day, just looking. This went on for days. We would come