Other young men
had piled their goods there and taken them away again; and each
young man had made a pile greater than the one before.
'And I laughed to the moon and the stars, and went to my own
house where my wealth was stored. And many trips I made, till my
pile was greater by the fingers of one hand than the pile of
Yash-Noosh. There were fish, dried in the sun and smoked; and
forty hides of the hair seal, and half as many of the fur, and
each hide was tied at the mouth and big bellied with oil; and ten
skins of bear which I killed in the woods when they came out in
the spring. And there were beads and blankets and scarlet cloths,
such as I got in trade from the people who lived to the east, and
who got them in trade from the people who lived still beyond in
the east.
'And I looked upon the pile of Yash-Noosh and laughed, for I was
head man in Akatan, and my wealth was greater than the wealth of
all my young men, and my fathers had done deeds, and given laws,
and put their names for all time in the mouths of the people.
'So, when the morning came, I went down to the beach, casting out
of the corner of my eye at the house of the mother of Unga.
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