At last Kesshoo shouted, "All ready! In you go!" He told each person
where to sit.
He put the Angakok in one boat to steer. He put Koko's father in the
other.
In Koko's father's boat he placed Koko and his mother and the baby,
Koolee and the twins, the pups, all three dogs, and four of the women
who lived in the other igloos. So you see it was quite a large boat.
In the Angakok's boat he placed his two wives, and all the rest of the
women and children and dogs. The women took up the paddles. One end of
the boat was partly in the water when they got in. The men gently
pushed it farther out until it floated.
Then the men got into their kyaks at the water's edge, fastened their
skin coats over the rims, and paddled out into deep water.
At last, when all the boats, big and little, were afloat, Kesshoo
called out, "We are going north. Follow me."
The women obeyed the signal of Koko's father and the Angakok. The
paddles dipped together into the water. The great boats moved! They
were off!
The children all sat together in the bottom of the boat, but the twins
and Koko were big enough to see over the sides. While the babies played
with the dogs, they were busy watching the things that passed on the
shores. Soon they passed the Big Rock with little auks and puffins
flying about it. They could see the red feet of the puffins, and a blue
fox sitting on the top of the rock, waiting for a chance to catch a
bird.
Then the Big Rock hid the village from sight.