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THE STORY OF GOMOGK THE ESKIMO I25
tened the line. And then I blew up the bladders of the seals and I tied them. And I fastened them to the sides, and then I said : 'Now you who always doubt, get in.' And they got in, and my wife got in, and she said : ' It will do, Comock, it will do.' And everyone said: 'Aye, it will do.'
Now we waited some days for no wind. But in these days, though the ice was all gone, with even a small wind there was always some sea. We waited more days, and now there were no more seals and the eiders were gone, though there were still in the cliffs some sea-pigeons. Upon these we lived. We waited more days, and on this day of today my wife said: cThis is the smoothest of all our days on this island.'
'Aye,' I said, 'we will wait, there is still enough sea.5 But she said, 'We should lower the omiak over the cliffs and all of us climb down and be ready to go.' But I said, cNo, we will wait until there is more smoothness come over the sea.' But she said, 'No, we will go5 ; and then I said, 'No' ; then she said, 'Yes'; then I said, 'No.' Then she went off and sat by herself, still like a stone.
Suddenly there were yells: 'Omiak! Omiak!' And when I stood up there it was, your white sail going around the nose of the cape. And though there was not too much smoothness on the sea, we lowered our omiak over the cliffs and we put it in the water and we all got in. And my wife said, 'I have here in my hands a stick, and if anyone moves they will feel this stick, for there is not too much smoothness on the sea.' And all the way she kept good watch with her stick.
'And now,' concluded Comock, 'we have come over to you on the sea, and you have taken us on your boat, and here we are.'
cAye,' said his wife. 'Aye,' said Comock, his wonderful face alight. 'Aye, and now there are no more words in my mouth. Tiamak,' he said.