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with George while the others sleep. Made fast to grounded icebergs
in rapidly changing tides is dangerous stuff, even with two of us
on watch all the time. The night before, the one we were hitched
to broke in three pieces--eac about 200 tons in size. We were all
asleep but by the grace of God none of them hit us, though we were
scared out of ten year's growth.
Avalooshak is a very likeable old boy. I know enough
of his language to talk a little with him and he knows very well
what we mean by signs, so we have a great time. He tries to learn
the words he is told for different kinds of food and other handy
words. He listens very intently while I pronounce a word twice,
then he tries it. Failing, as he often does, he bares his filthy
teeth in a gutteral but genuinely hearty laugh. The Eskimo tongue
is so constructed that it is impossible for him to pronounce many
of our simplest sounds. After much coaching on "prunes", he fi-
nally struggles out "plunth" and "bread" is "bled". On the word
"string", he works his mouth around for a minute or so and then,
with a broad grin, shakes his head at the same time rattling off a
blue streak of his gutteral syllables, evidently to the effect that
he cannot seem to handle the word. He understands very quickly what
is wanted of him, and is very helpful all the time. His foremost
accomplishment in the white man's (kabloona) language is the phrase
"O.K. Chief", which he makes "O Keh Chee" (o Ki Chip) and "thank
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