'Do you understand?--that Unga was to go away with him in his
ship. The blood of my fathers flamed hot on the sudden, and I
made to drive him through with my spear. But the spirit of the
bottles had stolen the life from my arm, and he took me by the
neck, so, and knocked my head against the wall of the house. And
I was made weak like a newborn child, and my legs would no more
stand under me.
'Unga screamed, and she laid hold of the things of the house with
her hands, till they fell all about us as he dragged her to the
door. Then he took her in his great arms, and when she tore at
his yellow hair laughed with a sound like that of the big bull
seal in the rut.
'I crawled to the beach and called upon my people, but they were
afraid. Only Yash-Noosh was a man, and they struck him on the
head with an oar, till he lay with his face in the sand and did
not move. And they raised the sails to the sound of their songs,
and the ship went away on the wind.
'The people said it was good, for there would be no more war of
the bloods in Akatan; but I said never a word, waiting till the
time of the full moon, when I put fish and oil in my kayak and
went away to the east.
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