He had but just sat down, when he began to sniff, and said:
"Hum! There is a smell of people here."
And now Atdlarneq crawled out, seeing that the other had already smelt
him. He had hardly shown himself, when the other asked very eagerly:
"Has he had nothing to eat yet?"
"No, he has not yet eaten."
"Then bring food at once."
And then they brought in a sack full of fish, and a big piece of
blubber from the half of a black seal. And then the man said violently:
"You are to eat this all up, and if you do not eat it all up, I will
thrash you with my copper cheeks!"
And now Atdlarneq began eagerly chewing blubber with his fish; he
chewed and chewed, and at last he had eaten it all up. Then he went
to the water bucket, and lifted it to his mouth and drank, and drank
it all to the last drop.
Hardly had he done this when the man said:
"And now the frozen meat."
And they brought in the half of a black seal. And Atdlarneq ate and
ate until there was no more left, save a very little piece.
When the man saw there was some not eaten, he cried out violently
again:
"Give him some more to eat."
And when Atdlarneq had eaten again for a while, he did not wish to
eat more. But then they brought in a whole black seal. And the man
set that also before him, and cried:
"Eat that up too."
And so Atdlarneq was forced to stuff himself mightily once more. He
ate and ate, and at last he had eaten it all up. And again he emptied
the water bucket.
After all that he felt very well indeed, and seemed hardly to have
eaten until now. But that was because he had swallowed a little stalk
of grass before he began.
So Atdlarneq slept, and next morning he went back home again. But
after having thus nearly gorged himself to death, he never went
southward again.