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THE STORY OF COMOGK THE ESKIMO Iig
sons brought home no seals. We grew hungry. 'Let our sons stay at home,' my wife said. 'You go for a seal this time, for we must soon have seals.' I went out on the ice and stayed away two days, but the storms were too heavy. I could do no hunting. I had to come home. The night was half done when I did come home, and late though it was there was still a bright light shining through the ice window. Then I knew something was wrong. When I crawled into my igloo my wife was sitting up and not moving and there was fright on her face, and my sons were sitting up, and they were frightened too. Annunglung was sitting like a stone, not moving and not talking, but there was that in his eyes that told me that three men would not be so strong.
We took turns sitting and watching all that night and all the next day, and I tried to think what I would have to do. 'Maybe he will get well,' said my wife. And sometimes it looked as if this would be so, for in these times he would sleep a little, and he would eat a little, but I knew in the end that he would never be well. And truly this was so, for there were now deep lines on his face, and his teeth were set hard and sometimes they ground. And there was blood from his tongue, and in his eyes there was that shine and the black balls of them were truly very small.
We were hungry and my dogs were hungry they were all ribs and there was whiteness on their mouths. We had one family of young dogs those, the dogs had already killed and eaten. And there was Annunglung, more and more still, and there was more and more hunger and my wife said: 'Soon, Comock, you must kill some seals.'
Then there was a night, and on this night everyone was asleep. And I who was watching was almost asleep, and then I heard a noise. It was Annunglung. I looked. He could not see my half-open eyes. He got up and he looked he looked towards me a long time, then he looked at my sons a long time, and then he looked at my wife and my children,