I saw many islands and many people, and I,
who had lived on the edge, saw that the world was very large. I
talked by signs; but they had not seen a schooner nor a man with
the mane of a sea lion, and they pointed always to the east. And
I slept in queer places, and ate odd things, and met strange
faces. Many laughed, for they thought me light of head; but
sometimes old men turned my face to the light and blessed me, and
the eyes of the young women grew soft as they asked me of the
strange ship, and Unga, and the men of the sea.
'And in this manner, through rough seas and great storms, I came
to Unalaska. There were two schooners there, but neither was the
one I sought. So I passed on to the east, with the world growing
ever larger, and in the island of Unamok there was no word of the
ship, nor in Kadiak, nor in Atognak. And so I came one day to a
rocky land, where men dug great holes in the mountain. And there
was a schooner, but not my schooner, and men loaded upon it the
rocks which they dug. This I thought childish, for all the world
was made of rocks; but they gave me food and set me to work. When
the schooner was deep in the water, the captain gave me money and
told me to go; but I asked which way he went, and he pointed
south.
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