The Savage Innocents Page #3

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Yes.

This one is your wife.

But you have chased Imina

for four turns of the sun.

So you will have to chase this one...

...at least ten times as long.

This hunter will

attempt to kill a bear.

Set the dogs on him.

We might lose some.

We have none to spare.

But dogs are faster.

This stupid man will use...

...a slower but better way.

Soften this.

Here.

When this whalebone springs open...

...the bear will get stomach ache.

Nanuk.

Nanuk.

The dogs would have been faster.

You are a great hunter.

The blade has just sprung open.

Soon you will rest

for a long time, Nanuk.

You are as easy to find as Kidok.

The hunter can rest

as well as the hunted.

You'd rest better, so.

A stupid man is

happy he made up his mind.

A girl is grateful a great

hunter accepted her mother.

For a man another

mouth to hunt for...

...is not too much.

Now he has two useless women.

Now he has a wife.

He is proud to have...

...a woman of his own.

Next time we see Anarvik

and we have a cup of tea...

...he says, 'Anarvik...

...my friend, this man

asks no more favours...

...no more permission.

From now on you ask

permission to laugh...

...with my most

desirable wife, Asiak'.

He could not even giggle.

Good manners require

you ask permission...

...before you touch someone's bear.

But you did not kill it.

We have been chasing

this bear for three days.

But you didn't kill it.

Of course, not.

It was already dying

from our spring bait.

No.

- No?

Perhaps it died of fright from big...

...thunder you may have heard.

But this man killed it.

How?

How about this?

It has no sharp

point, no cutting edge.

You did not club bear.

How could you kill?

This one will show you.

Asiak...

...look.

You may touch it.

To use it well...

...it is placed here.

Press it here.

My igloo is not far off.

A worthless wife

will make you some tea.

But first a hunter must skin his bear.

Hiko.

Asiak.

Inuk.

Very good bear hunters.

You killed this bear?

We did.

So many useless skins.

Are they good for mops?

You know of the white man?

It is not impossible.

The white man has no liking

for frozen fish and old meat.

He likes fox skins too much.

But he has many guns.

And you like the ermine tail...

...and the red grease

as much as the white woman.

Very pretty?

He lives in great house of wood.

- Wood.

It is sticky with the heat and...

...he suffers from cold all the time.

He is truly stupid.

But for enough of the fox skins...

...he will give you

a gun such as this...

...with which you

would kill your own bear.

So?

This is what the

white man calls trade.

How many skins are necessary...

...to have such a gun?

Five times a man counted to the end.

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