Then he
went down to his ship. After that I took Unga by the hand and led
her to my own house. And there was singing and great laughter,
and the women said sly things, after the manner of women at such
times. But we did not care. Then the people left us alone and
went home.
'The last noise had not died away when the chief of the sea
wanderers came in by the door. And he had with him black bottles,
from which we drank and made merry. You see, I was only a
stripling, and had lived all my days on the edge of the world. So
my blood became as fire, and my heart as light as the froth that
flies from the surf to the cliff. Unga sat silent among the skins
in the corner, her eyes wide, for she seemed to fear. And he with
the mane of the sea lion looked upon her straight and long. Then
his men came in with bundles of goods, and he piled before me
wealth such as was not in all Akatan. There were guns, both large
and small, and powder and shot and shell, and bright axes and
knives of steel, and cunning tools, and strange things the like
of which I had never seen. When he showed me by sign that it was
all mine, I thought him a great man to be so free; but he showed
me also that Unga was to go away with him in his ship.
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