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Imnak

Book 12. (500 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	246	"Imnak cannot sing in the feasting house! Imnak cannot paddle a kayak! Imnak is a poor hunter!" "I am getting angry," said Imnak to me.	10
14	251	"Imnak is a lazy fellow! Imnak is a terrible hunter! I am fortunate not to be Imnak's woman.	10
13	204	"A great hunter like Imnak comes back without meat! It is just too hard to believe!" Imnak looked down, shuffling.	10
14	252	Pity the poor woman who goes to Imnak's tent! I am pleased that I am not going to his tent! I would not go to his tent for anything!" "I have had enough," said Imnak suddenly.	10
14	293	"Imnak," she cried, "what are you going to do?" "Only one can be first," cried Imnak.	10
14	300	"Imnak! Imnak!" He thrust the whip in his belt.	10
16	1	Imnak Carves Imnak sat in the corner of the tent, aimlessly whittling at a piece of tabuk horn.	10
20	147	And I am Imnak, too! Tell me your song, Imnak, for I cannot sing without you.	10
22	1	Imnak and I Hunt Sleen; We Consider the Nature of the World "Over there," said Imnak, indicating the place in the water.	10
23	34	"Imnak! Imnak!" called Poalu, from outside, running up to the door of the hut.	10
24	1	We Hold Converse in the Hut of Imnak; A Decision is Reached; I Permit Arlene to Share my Furs "It is fortunate for me, perhaps," said Ram, to Karjuk, in Imnak's hut, "that you were trailing the ice beast and managed to kill it".	10
25	12	Karjuk sledded alone; so, too, did Ram; Imnak and I brought up the rear with Imnak's sled, fashioned long ago at the remains of the wall.	10
10	41	What if the name should go away? What if it, in escaping their lips, should not return to them? "One whom some hunters in the north call Imnak may share your chain," he said.	10
10	45	"You are Imnak," I said.	10
10	49	"Greetings, Imnak," I said.	10
10	82	"What ship is this?" asked Imnak.	10
10	84	Imnak smiled.	10
10	87	Imnak's face darkened.	10
10	100	"I know you are wise and I am stupid," said Imnak, "for I am only a lowly fellow of the polar basin, but my peoples, in the gathering of the summer, in the great hunts, when the herd comes, number in the hundreds".	10
10	104	"Too," said Imnak, "my people are inland, waiting for the herd to come to the tundra grazing.	10
10	108	"Do my ears deceive me?" asked Imnak.	10
10	112	This admission took Imnak aback for a moment.	10
10	201	I, with Ram and Imnak, and Tasdron, who had been the captain in the fee of Samos, he whose ship had been lost to the tarnsmen, shouldered one of the logs.	10
10	204	"She wears a man's furs," said Imnak.	10
10	277	"Imnak," I said, "would you like to go home?" "I have not seen the performance of a drum dance in four moons," he said.	10
10	331	As soon as one log was tortured out of the earth and lifted away Imnak slipped through the opening, out among the tabuk.	10
10	334	I was disappointed that Imnak had fled.	10
10	394	I was aware of Imnak near me, grinning.	10
11	17	At the end of the wall Imnak wept, seeing the strewn fields of slaughtered tabuk.	10
11	26	Fluttering jards, covering many of the carcasses like gigantic flies, stirred, swarming upward as Imnak passed them, and then returned to their feasting.	10
11	158	"Imnak," said I, "go to the platform.	10
11	182	"These girls," said I, "belong to Imnak".	10
11	232	Imnak had fashioned a sled, which would be of use in crossing Ax Glacier.	10
11	240	About their throats now, too, they wore again the four looped strings, each differently knotted, by means of which a red hunter might, upon inspection, determine that their owner was Imnak.	10
11	241	This morning Imnak, walking behind and to one side of the sled, had left the camp's area.	10
11	246	More significant to Imnak had been sugars and Bazi tea, and furs and tools.	10
11	249	Trees do not flourish in the land of Imnak and their needs for wood must largely be satisfied by occasional finds at the shore, driftwood, from hundreds of pasangs south, dragged from the chilled water.	10
11	250	Imnak's whip cracked and she who had been Barbara Benson, a middle-class girl, and she who had been the rich, upper-class Audrey Brewster, now Thimble and Thistle, cried out and began to draw their master's sled.	10
11	309	Imnak would have been pleased.	10
12	1	I Tent with Imnak at the Gathering of the People; I Advance Arlene a Bit in Her Training "Put them on, Slave Girl," said Thimble, not pleasantly.	10
12	6	Imnak and I sat across from one another, both cross-legged.	10
12	9	The bone Imnak had dropped was carved in the shape of a small tabuk.	10
12	35	The tiny tabuk which Imnak had dropped remained standing upright.	10
12	58	Imnak picked up his tiny carved tabuk and held it over the fur mat.	10
12	85	Arlene stripped herself, to the leather collar, in Imnak's hide tent.	10
12	90	"I have won," said Imnak.	10
12	96	"Here she is," I told Imnak.	10
12	98	Imnak took her and turned her over, pulling her on her back across his legs.	10
12	100	"Imnak has won your use, until he chooses to leave the tent," I told her.	10
12	105	Imnak then dragged her to the side of the hide tent.	10
12	108	There I found the camp of Imnak, and Thimble and Thistle.	10
12	109	"I have been waiting for you," had said Imnak.	10
12	123	Imnak grinned.	10
12	128	With Imnak's help we would cross Ax Glacier and find the Innuit, as they called themselves, a word which, in their own tongue, means "the People".	10
12	153	Thimble and Thistle dismantled the hides and poles of Imnak's tent, and began to load them on the sled.	10
12	167	Imnak's whip cracked down across the bare back of Thimble, the blonde, who had been Barbara Benson, and she cried out and wept, "I hurry, Master!" She busied herself with loading the sled.	10
12	176	"Those garments," said Imnak, "will be insufficient in the north".	10
12	182	Imnak had done this with Thimble and Thistle and did not wish to repeat the task.	10
12	188	Imnak's pupils dilated.	10
12	190	"Into the traces," said Imnak.	10
12	193	"Can you rig another trace?" I asked Imnak.	10
12	196	Imnak cracked his whip over their heads and they threw their weight against the traces and the long, narrow, freighted sled eased upward, over the rocks, and then slid down onto the ice of Ax Glacier.	10
12	197	Imnak and I held the rear of the sled that it not move too rapidly downward.	10
12	219	"Har-ta!" said Imnak to the girls.	10
12	222	Imnak himself spoke fair Gorean.	10
12	225	Imnak and I, too, applied our strength to the haul, thrusting at the wooden uprights at the back of the sled.	10
12	226	Imnak wished Thimble and Thistle to know Gorean.	10
12	228	"Har-ta!" called Imnak.	10
12	239	I think this was a moving moment for Imnak.	10
12	273	Imnak sometimes did give Thimble and Thistle a pretty string or ribbon, usually red or yellow, to tie back their hair, but often he did not; he did with them what he pleased, and they did for him what they were told.	10
12	275	Imnak had his vanities.	10
12	293	'Imnak,' for example, means "Steep Mountain"; 'Poalu' means "Mitten"; 'Kadluk' means "Thunder".	10
12	296	However, since these names, respectively, would be 'Thimble' and 'Thistle', and Imnak often referred to them in Gorean as "Thimble" and 'Thistle" I have felt it would be acceptable to use those latter expressions, they being simpler from the point of view of one who does not natively speak the tongu...	10
12	330	Six days ago Imnak and I, and our girls, had descended from the height of the pass of Tancred.	10
12	345	I had not yet spoken to Imnak about the carving of bluish stone among my belongings, the carving of a Kur, with an ear half torn away.	10
12	404	"Is Imnak finished yet with the new slave girl?" I asked, referring to Arlene.	10
12	428	I was, accordingly, in a good mood when I returned to Imnak's tent.	10
12	431	"Have you had a good day?" inquired Imnak, politely.	10
12	435	Then I said, "Have you had a good day?" "Perhaps someone has not had a good day," said Imnak.	10
12	450	"I gather Imnak was not pleased," I said.	10
12	451	"Imnak!" she cried.	10
12	452	"Yes, Imnak," I said.	10
12	472	"You will now crawl to Imnak," I said, "and beg to try and please him again.	10
12	488	"If Imnak is not pleased," I said, "you will be fed to the sleen".	10
12	504	On her belly then she crawled to Imnak.	10
12	507	* * * * "Have you had a good day?" I later asked Imnak.	10
12	518	* * * * Imnak, and Thimble and Thistle were asleep.	10
13	1	Imnak Broaches to me a Topic of Some Importance; We Encounter Poalu One of the problems in approaching tabuk on the tundra is the lack of cover.	10
13	2	I followed Imnak's example, crawling on my belly, after him, the horn bow in my hand, an arrow loose at the string.	10
13	21	I had suggested to Imnak that we come hunting.	10
13	35	I followed Imnak.	10
13	40	Imnak gestured that I should crawl beside him.	10
13	55	"Perhaps you are not in a good mood because you are cold," suggested Imnak.	10
13	60	"I wanted to come hunting with you," said Imnak, "because I have something serious to discuss with you".	10
13	64	"Men of the south must be approached so cautiously," said Imnak.	10
13	68	It had been for much the same reason that I had delayed broaching to Imnak the nature of my mission in the north.	10
13	69	"My business," said Imnak, "concerns Poalu, the daughter of Kadluk".	10
13	73	"I do not understand," said Imnak.	10
13	75	"What of Poalu?" "I love her," said Imnak.	10
13	91	"Akko, who is my friend," said Imnak, "says that to take such a woman would be to leap naked into a pit of starving snow sleen.	10
13	139	"But then you could not well see what you are doing," said Imnak.	10
13	143	"No, no, no, no, no," said Imnak.	10
13	150	"Do you not occasionally run into problems," I asked, "like being speared in the back by her brothers?" "Poalu has no brothers," said Imnak.	10
13	153	"He is a great hunter, Kadluk," said Imnak.	10
13	156	"Why should he disapprove?" asked Imnak.	10
13	159	"Do not fear," said Imnak, reassuringly.	10
13	163	"Kadluk, then, knows that I am to carry off his daughter?" "Of course," said Imnak.	10
13	166	"That would not be polite," said Imnak.	10
13	172	"Of course," said Imnak.	10
13	174	"That is all right," said Imnak, generously.	10
13	178	"Ah, my friend," said Imnak, sadly, "I am sorry there is no Bazi tea".	10
13	180	"True," said Imnak, "but now there is not".	10
13	182	Imnak looked at me, horrified.	10
13	185	"Also," said Imnak, "there is no sugar left, and few furs".	10
13	187	"I gave them to Kadluk, too," said Imnak, "and most of the wood".	10
13	189	"Kadluk likes tabuk," said Imnak.	10
13	194	"Yes," said Imnak.	10
13	196	"No," said Imnak.	10
13	200	Imnak hung his head.	10
13	202	"Yes," said Imnak.	10
13	206	Imnak looked up, puzzled.	10
13	207	"He says Imnak is a great hunter! I think it is true.	10
13	208	It is only that Imnak is not too smart and leaves all the meat out in the fields for the jards".	10
13	209	Imnak looked down again.	10
13	212	She speaks to her guests, 'Oh, no, Imnak has forgotten to bring back the meat again.	10
13	219	'" "Are you sure she expects to be carried off?" I asked Imnak.	10
13	220	"Of course," said Imnak.	10
13	226	Imnak, too, leaped backward.	10
13	228	"She is moody sometimes," said Imnak.	10
13	232	"Yes," said Imnak.	10
13	243	"He is my rival," said Imnak.	10
13	247	"No," said Imnak.	10
13	250	"Yes," said Imnak.	10
14	13	I looked back a few yards to where Imnak stood, lending me moral support.	10
14	23	Imnak sidled up to me.	10
14	28	Imnak backed away, expectantly.	10
14	34	I gathered that Kadluk had little intention, or desire at any rate, to return Imnak's quantities of Bazi tea, or other gifts, to him.	10
14	38	I turned to Imnak.	10
14	41	"No, no!" cried Imnak.	10
14	44	"What possible difference could that make?" asked Imnak.	10
14	47	"No," said Imnak.	10
14	50	"It seems your daughter must be carried away by force," said Imnak.	10
14	53	"Go ahead," said Imnak.	10
14	57	"Go ahead," urged Imnak.	10
14	60	"But we love one another," said Imnak.	10
14	62	"I am too shy," said Imnak, hanging his head.	10
14	72	I dodged as the knife sailed past my head, narrowly missing Imnak outside.	10
14	82	"She says she did not make the arrangements," I called out to Imnak.	10
14	83	"That does not matter," called Imnak in to me.	10
14	86	"It does matter, she says," I relayed to Imnak, outside.	10
14	88	"It does not matter," I relayed to Poalu, from Imnak outside.	10
14	89	"She is only a woman," pointed out Imnak.	10
14	90	"You are only a woman," I told her, relaying Imnak's point.	10
14	97	Kadluk, I then understood, had wisely removed his gear, such as knives and arrows, from the tent before Imnak and I had arrived.	10
14	111	"Where is Imnak?" she asked.	10
14	118	"She says she is not going," I called out to Imnak.	10
14	120	Then I heard Imnak say, "That is all right with me".	10
14	126	I heard Imnak outside.	10
14	128	"I will give you back your gifts, Imnak," said Kadluk, rather more loudly than was necessary.	10
14	129	"You may keep them," said Imnak, expansively.	10
14	131	I found myself hoping that he would indeed return Imnak's gifts.	10
14	132	We in Imnak's tent could use that Bazi tea, those furs and the tabuk steaks.	10
14	133	"It will be amusing to hear the songs they will sing in the feasting house about Poalu," said Imnak, loudly, "how no one wants her".	10
14	138	"Oh, look," said Imnak, "here is a sled".	10
14	140	There was indeed a sled there, that which Imnak had built at the wall, and which the girls had drawn, that sled by means of which his supplies and gear had been transported across Ax Glacier.	10
14	143	"You would expect to carry a girl off in a sled drawn by white-skinned slave beasts! What a scoundrel you are! How insulting!" "I will borrow a snow sleen," said Imnak.	10
14	146	Imnak unhitched Thimble, Thistle, and Arlene.	10
14	151	I was at least getting some of the tea back which Imnak had given to Kadluk.	10
14	152	In a few minutes Imnak returned with a snow sleen on a stout leash.	10
14	155	"Someone has a snow sleen hitched to a sled outside of the tent of someone," called Imnak.	10
14	158	"Someone has not even looked at it," said Imnak.	10
14	162	Imnak, for no reason that was clear to me, scouted about and located another snow sleen.	10
14	164	Imnak angrily unhitched the second animal, and rehitched the first one, that which belonged to Akko.	10
14	166	"Of course not," said Imnak.	10
14	169	"I am going away," said Imnak.	10
14	185	Imnak had warned me that Naartok, his rival, might try to kill me, to prevent my carrying Poalu off.	10
14	202	"She says she does not want to go," I told Imnak.	10
14	203	"Go back," urged Imnak.	10
14	205	"Look, Imnak," I said, "I value your friendship but I have really had enough of this.	10
14	207	Imnak looked at me, miserable.	10
14	212	"It is true," said Imnak, glumly.	10
14	215	"Yes," said Imnak.	10
14	219	"Poalu is a girl," said Imnak.	10
14	221	"Do you think she may be a she-sleen?" asked Imnak, concerned.	10
14	225	"That would explain much," mused Imnak.	10
14	234	"But she acts much like one," said Imnak.	10
14	236	"Some girls are like that," said Imnak.	10
14	240	"Home," said Imnak.	10
14	241	We began to trudge back toward Imnak's tent.	10
14	243	Imnak led the snow sleen, drawing the sled on the tundra, and I walked beside him.	10
14	245	"Imnak is a lazy fellow!" called Poalu.	10
14	248	"Sometimes red hunters get angry," said Imnak.	10
14	250	"Yes," said Imnak.	10
14	254	"It is unfortunate that I am so shy," said Imnak between gritted teeth.	10
14	256	Suddenly Imnak threw back his head and howled at the sky.	10
14	259	We continued on, toward Imnak's tent, not looking back.	10
14	262	We did not look back until we came to the threshold of Imnak's tent.	10
14	263	A large crowd was approaching, yet in such a way as to give Imnak room.	10
14	264	Leading the crowd, but seeming half in the midst of it, came Imnak.	10
14	277	"Imnak," she said.	10
14	279	"Imnak," she cried.	10
14	284	I suspected that we would have numerous guests in the tent of Imnak.	10
14	285	Imnak then bound her wrists together before her body and pulled her to her feet.	10
14	286	"Imnak!" she cried.	10
14	289	Imnak fastened Poalu's hands over her head and to the pole.	10
14	290	"Imnak!" she cried.	10
14	291	"What are you going to do?" Imnak, who had returned to the tent after fastening her in place, returned to the pole.	10
14	294	"Imnak!" she cried, struck.	10
14	295	The hunters and the women gathered about cheered Imnak on.	10
14	297	Then she cried out, "It is Imnak who is first in his tent!" She shuddered in the straps that bound her.	10
14	299	"Imnak is first!" she cried.	10
14	302	"You are first, Imnak," she wept.	10
14	306	"No, Imnak!" she cried.	10
14	324	Imnak, if he wished, could slay her for such an act.	10
14	326	The crowd began to dissipate, leaving Imnak and Poalu much alone.	10
14	327	"Why have you done this to me, Imnak?" asked Poalu.	10
14	330	"Yes," said Imnak.	10
14	339	Imnak shrugged.	10
14	340	"I have loved you since we were children, Imnak," she whispered.	10
14	344	"Will you truly make me obey you, Imnak?" she asked.	10
14	357	"Imnak," she whispered, "you may do what you want with a beast, and a beast must do, fully, what you want".	10
14	359	"Oh, Imnak!" she cried.	10
14	368	Imnak looked about, and drew shut the flaps of the tent.	10
15	8	Imnak and I had brought down four tabuk.	10
15	9	Poalu, whom Imnak, with my consent, had made first girl, and the other girls, had followed us.	10
15	36	"If Imnak gives my use to him I must serve him!" cried Audrey.	10
15	54	I cast down the switch, angrily, and then, a hand in the hair of each, dragged them back up to a half-standing position and then twisted them about and conducted them, they bent over, the head of Arlene at my left hip and that of Thistle at my right hip, to a place beneath the horizontal pole near I...	10
15	97	Imnak, since he had acquired Poalu, had scarcely glanced at his two white-skinned slave beasts.	10
15	102	Sometimes I won, and sometimes Imnak won.	10
15	103	When Imnak won he might have the use of Arlene, if he chose, or a tabuk steak.	10
15	104	Not unoften, to my amusement and Arlene's outrage, Imnak would select the steak.	10
15	105	As I explained to her this was not because there was anything intrinsically lacking in her but because Imnak had eyes only, or generally, for Poalu.	10
15	111	It was not that Poalu, though she was first girl, and firm, was cruel to them, but rather simply that Imnak now had little time for them and paid them scant attention.	10
15	114	Imnak now seldom touched them.	10
15	138	"You have won," had said Imnak, cheerfully.	10
15	159	Imnak got up and seized Poalu by the arm.	10
15	181	Imnak was seldom patient with his white-skinned slave beasts.	10
15	602	"Do you think Imnak will keep me a slave forever," she asked.	10
15	610	"Imnak now has Poalu," I said.	10
15	653	"Imnak taught it to me," she laughed.	10
15	702	"Do you remember the large blue and yellow pavilion near the platforms where Imnak bought you?" "Yes," she said.	10
15	902	"Imnak taught it to me".	10
15	1161	Imnak lifted his head quickly, and then, understanding the nature of the noise, shook his head and reached over and seized Poalu.	10
16	13	Imnak's knife had a wooden handle, some fourteen inches long.	10
16	17	Imnak held up the sleen.	10
16	22	Is this not a concern of all men? "It is your sleen," said Imnak, giving it to me.	10
17	1	I First Hear of Karjuk; I Must Meet Him "But I have never seen it before," said Imnak.	10
17	7	"I sold carvings at the fair," said Imnak, "yes, but I did not sell this".	10
17	9	"No," said Imnak.	10
17	11	Imnak shrugged.	10
17	13	"Who other than you of the Innuit," I asked, "journeyed this year to the fair?" "Only I," said Imnak.	10
17	15	"Reasonably so," said Imnak.	10
17	19	"Where then," I asked, "might the dealer have obtained this carving?" "I do not know," said Imnak.	10
17	21	"Forgive me, Imnak, who hunts with me," I said, "it was not my intent to impugn your honesty".	10
17	29	Imnak examined the carving carefully, turning it about in his hand.	10
17	35	"Imnak," I asked, "have you heard of a mountain that does not move?" He looked at me.	10
17	37	"No," said Imnak.	10
17	39	"No," said Imnak.	10
17	41	"Imnak," I said, "have you ever seen such a beast as is represented in that carving?" "Yes," he said.	10
17	55	Some years ago Imnak had seen a Kur north of Torvaldsland.	10
17	66	Imnak handed the carving back to me.	10
17	73	"All right," said Imnak.	10
17	81	"You are marvelous, Imnak!" I cried.	10
17	86	"He is not here," said Imnak.	10
17	88	"In the north," said Imnak.	10
17	90	"In the far north," said Imnak.	10
17	93	"He is the guard," said Imnak.	10
17	95	"Yes," said Imnak, "he guards the People against the ice beasts".	10
17	98	"If the ice beasts cannot find him how can we?" "I am leaving as soon as I have slept," I told Imnak.	10
17	101	"You have business in the north?" inquired Imnak politely.	10
17	127	"It is not my fault they came late to the tundra," said Imnak.	10
17	132	"I know it is crazy," said Imnak, "but we are going to do it".	10
17	133	"Yes, Imnak," she said, "my master".	10
17	134	Imnak returned to where I sat.	10
17	136	Imnak shrugged.	10
17	144	"Then we will not be able to find him," said Imnak.	10
18	2	"It will be soon now," said Imnak.	10
18	15	"It is nearly time now," said Imnak.	10
18	17	"Be ready," said Imnak.	10
18	27	"Now!" cried Imnak.	10
18	31	"Look out!" cried Imnak.	10
18	41	"It is going to dive," said Imnak.	10
18	43	Imnak and another man began to draw on the line, to pull us to the very side of the monster.	10
18	47	Beside me now Imnak and the other hunters, all with lances, began to drive them, like needles, into the side of the animal, again and again.	10
18	51	"Hold the line!" cried Imnak.	10
18	55	"Give it line!" cried Imnak.	10
18	60	"Now we will wait," said Imnak.	10
19	11	I sat in Imnak's hut, cross-legged.	10
20	3	Beside me, cross-legged, sat Imnak, grease from the raw blubber he chewed at the side of his mouth.	10
20	7	Imnak and I, and the girls, had come north in the summer, early.	10
20	13	"I did not think Karjuk would come to an empty camp," said Imnak, "but I did not know.	10
20	15	"The camp is not now empty," I had told Imnak.	10
20	16	Imnak had shrugged.	10
20	19	"Perhaps he will come," had said Imnak.	10
20	21	"Then," said Imnak, "he does not" As the weeks had passed I had grown more fretful and anxious.	10
20	22	"Let us hunt for Karjuk," I had urged Imnak.	10
20	23	"If the ice beasts cannot find Karjuk," said Imnak, "how can we find him?" "What can we do?" I asked.	10
20	65	"Sing, Imnak!" called Akko.	10
20	66	"Sing, Imnak!" called Kadluk.	10
20	67	Imnak shook his head vigorously.	10
20	69	"Imnak never sings," said Poalu, helpfully volunteering this information, forgetful apparently of the bondage strings knotted on her throat.	10
20	70	"Come, Imnak," said Akko, his friend.	10
20	72	"I cannot sing," said Imnak.	10
20	74	To my surprise Imnak rose to his feet and, hastily, left the feasting house.	10
20	77	"I cannot sing," said Imnak.	10
20	84	"You can sing, Imnak," said Poalu.	10
20	85	"No," said Imnak, "I cannot sing".	10
20	87	"No," said Imnak, "I will not sing.	10
20	89	"Imnak," she protested.	10
20	105	Imnak's camp was one of the more centrally located of the camps.	10
20	111	Imnak looked out, over the water.	10
20	119	"A voice," said Imnak, "seemed to say to me, 'How dare you make up a song? How dare you sing? I am the world.	10
20	123	"Since that day I have never tried to sing," said Imnak.	10
20	125	"Who am I to make up a song?" asked Imnak.	10
20	135	"I am too small," said Imnak.	10
20	143	"I am unworthy," said Imnak.	10
20	148	It is only through you, tiny insignificant Imnak, and others like you, that I can see myself and know how beautiful I am.	10
20	149	It is only through you, my tiny, frail precious Imnak, and others like you, that I can lift my voice in song".	10
20	150	Imnak turned away from me.	10
20	157	"Yes," said Imnak.	10
20	161	"It is good," said Imnak, looking at the meat racks.	10
20	170	"I cannot remember the racks being so heavy with meat in my lifetime," said Imnak.	10
20	179	"I think we have enough food for the winter," said Imnak.	10
20	184	"Remain in the camp," said Imnak.	10
21	28	Imnak had his eye on Poalu.	10
21	88	Poalu, I saw, was beside Imnak.	10
21	204	Poalu served Imnak.	10
21	205	"I note," I said, "that Poalu is bringing meat to Imnak".	10
22	10	"There," whispered Imnak, in his own kayak, a few feet from that which I was using, which belonged to Akko.	10
22	22	"You are too slow, Tarl, who hunts with me," said Imnak.	10
22	24	"Yes," Imnak agreed, "last time you were too hasty".	10
22	26	"You should keep it steady," said Imnak.	10
22	27	"Thank you, Imnak," I said.	10
22	29	"What are friends for?" asked Imnak.	10
22	30	"Imnak!" I cried.	10
22	33	Water was running from the kayak and Imnak's gutskin jacket.	10
22	43	"It is lucky for the sleen that you are here," said Imnak.	10
22	46	"Perhaps you are not friendly enough to the sea sleen," said Imnak.	10
22	50	'Talk to them, be friendly," said Imnak.	10
22	54	"Would you like to be harpooned by someone who was an enemy?" asked Imnak.	10
22	56	"But you are not a sea sleen," said Imnak.	10
22	58	"Come now," said Imnak, "would you not prefer to be harpooned by a friend rather than an enemy?" "I suppose so," I said, "if I had my choice".	10
22	59	"There you are!" said Imnak triumphantly.	10
22	61	"But," Imnak reminded me, "you are not a sea sleen, are you?" "No," I granted him.	10
22	63	It was sometimes difficult to enter into disputation with Imnak.	10
22	64	"Be friendly," said Imnak.	10
22	68	"Good," said Imnak.	10
22	71	"Listen," said Imnak.	10
22	77	I am Imnak, only a poor hunter.	10
22	82	"That is the silliest thing I have ever heard," I told Imnak.	10
22	83	"How many sleen have you harpooned today?" asked Imnak.	10
22	85	"I have harpooned two," said Imnak.	10
22	95	"Not bad," said Imnak.	10
22	97	"Do you think you could help me out?" "Now you are catching on," said Imnak.	10
22	100	I looked at Imnak.	10
22	102	"Splendid," said Imnak.	10
22	111	"You see," said Imnak, "you are catching on".	10
22	113	"There is the sleen," said Imnak, pointing.	10
22	120	"I think he likes you," said Imnak.	10
22	122	"Do not move too swiftly," said Imnak, "lest he charge and kill you".	10
22	125	"Oh, oh," said Imnak.	10
22	127	"Perhaps you should not have talked to that sleen," said Imnak.	10
22	129	"That, I think, is a rogue sleen," said Imnak.	10
22	143	"Do not be silly," said Imnak.	10
22	146	I thought I might give Imnak back a bit of his own medicine.	10
22	147	"One must be careful what sleen one talks to," said Imnak.	10
22	150	"You may talk to it if you wish," said Imnak, "but I would not do so if I were you".	10
22	154	"That is one sleen you would just as soon not have listen to you," said Imnak.	10
22	157	"Precisely," said Imnak.	10
22	161	"Can you help me out?" "Be silent," whispered Imnak, horrified.	10
22	163	"He may be only pretending," said Imnak.	10
22	165	"Let us not take the chance," said Imnak.	10
22	169	"We have two sleen," said Imnak.	10
22	171	"Do not be foolish, Tarl, who hunts with me," said Imnak.	10
22	173	"Look out!" cried Imnak.	10
22	190	Imnak, too, came to the line, and, straining, together we held it.	10
22	192	"He is running," said Imnak.	10
22	196	"Loose the line!" called Imnak.	10
22	198	"Loose the line!" called Imnak.	10
22	204	"It is running to the sea!" called Imnak, following me as he could in his own vessel.	10
22	206	"It is turning," said Imnak.	10
22	209	"It is not dead," said Imnak.	10
22	215	"Beware," said Imnak.	10
22	222	"It has been hunted before," said Imnak, "and lived".	10
22	225	"It has been hunted before, and lived," said Imnak.	10
22	234	"I would not be eager to turn my back on him," said Imnak.	10
22	236	"He is not dead," said Imnak.	10
22	238	"He is still bleeding," said Imnak.	10
22	241	"It is a broad-head," said Imnak.	10
22	245	"Yes," said Imnak.	10
22	249	"It is waiting for our closer approach," said Imnak.	10
22	252	"Yes," said Imnak.	10
22	257	After a time Imnak said, "Be ready.	10
22	265	"We struck it fairly!" said Imnak.	10
22	271	Imnak struck again at it from the side.	10
22	274	Imnak struck it again.	10
22	276	It turned on Imnak and I thrust my lance deeply into its side, behind the right foreflipper, seeking, hunting, the great, dark heart.	10
22	281	"It is dead," said Imnak.	10
22	283	"The nature of your stroke, and its depth," said Imnak.	10
22	289	"You have great strength," said Imnak.	10
22	295	"Not unless it becomes heavy in the water," said Imnak.	10
22	298	"Here," said Imnak, "support it between the kayaks.	10
22	304	"I was not sure of it for a time," said Imnak.	10
22	306	"It was wrong of me," granted Imnak.	10
22	310	"They are playful fellows," admitted Imnak.	10
22	312	Imnak looked at me, and grinned.	10
22	315	"When you are longer in the north," said Imnak, "these things will become clearer to you".	10
22	317	"You should thank the sleen for letting himself be harpooned by you," said Imnak.	10
22	320	"Good," said Imnak.	10
22	323	"I guess you are right, Imnak," I said.	10
22	324	"Of course I am right," said Imnak.	10
22	330	"That is an interesting and difficult question," said Imnak.	10
22	333	"It is a belief of the People," said Imnak, "that the sleen does not really die but, after a time, will be reborn again".	10
22	335	"Yes," said Imnak.	10
22	338	"Yes," said Imnak.	10
22	340	"They do not like animals?" asked Imnak.	10
22	343	"Some sleen are pretty smart," said Imnak.	10
22	347	"Who knows what life is all about?" asked Imnak.	10
22	350	"That is interesting," said Imnak.	10
22	353	"No," said Imnak.	10
22	355	"No," said Imnak, drawing his kayak up on the shore, "the world cannot be lonely where there are two people who are friends".	10
22	357	"You are right, Imnak," I said.	10
22	360	What more justification could it require?" "Help me pull the meat up on shore," said Imnak.	10
23	1	One Comes to the Feasting House "Night has fallen," I said to Imnak.	10
23	3	"Perhaps not," said Imnak.	10
23	6	Some three weeks ago, more than twenty sleeps past, Imnak and I had taken three sleen in kayak fishing.	10
23	15	"There are many villages," said Imnak.	10
23	19	"You might as well look for one sleen in all the sea," said Imnak.	10
23	23	"I will put ice on the runners," said Imnak.	10
23	28	"Listen," said Imnak.	10
23	32	"No, it is not Karjuk," said Imnak.	10
23	39	"Yes, Imnak," she cried.	10
23	40	Imnak and I drew on our mittens and parkas and emerged from the lamp-warmed, half-underground hut.	10
23	52	"What do you see?" asked Imnak.	10
23	65	"Who from the south would come in the winter?" I asked Imnak.	10
23	66	"It must be a trader," said Imnak.	10
23	69	"He may have news! Let us hurry to meet him!" "Yes," said Imnak.	10
23	76	Kadluk in the lead, Imnak and I following, with Akko and Naartok, and the others, too, behind him, harpoons and lances in our hands, tramped out of the village, heading toward the sound of the sleen.	10
23	137	"I thought I would find you in the village of Kadluk and Imnak," he said.	10
23	138	Imnak had been with us at the wall.	10
23	211	Only one red hunter was at the wall, Imnak.	10
23	372	"She is Imnak's," I said.	10
23	374	"A splendid purchase," said Ram, congratulating Imnak.	10
23	375	"I bought the other one there, too," said Imnak, indicating Barbara, who was serving across the room.	10
23	383	"I had them both for the pelt of a snow lart and the pelts of four leems," said Imnak, rather pleased with himself.	10
23	386	"The market was slow," admitted Imnak.	10
23	388	Imnak shrugged modestly.	10
23	391	"Perhaps you are right," said Imnak.	10
23	403	"They are good at pulling sleds," said Imnak.	10
23	405	"You may use either, of course," said Imnak, putting Thimble and Thistle, both, at Ram's disposal.	10
23	420	"With your permission, Imnak," said Ram, "I will try the others later".	10
23	421	"Use them whenever you wish," said Imnak.	10
23	438	"Tarl, who hunts with me," said Imnak, seriously, "I am afraid".	10
23	440	"The animal we saw," said Imnak, "was surely an ice beast".	10
23	465	"I do not think an ice beast could slip past Karjuk," said Imnak.	10
23	470	Imnak and I sat together for a long time, not speaking.	10
23	484	Imnak's hand was hard upon my arm.	10
23	488	I looked at Imnak.	10
24	5	He had cut the rings from the ears of the beast, and had given them, with Imnak's permission, to Poalu, who now wore them on her left wrist, as bracelets.	10
24	25	"I told him there could be no such thing," said Imnak.	10
24	29	"There is such a thing?" said Imnak.	10
24	34	"How can there be such a thing?" asked Imnak.	10
24	66	"I will come with you," said Imnak.	10
24	68	Imnak looked at the severed head of the white-pelted Kur.	10
24	80	"Would you like the use of any of my women?" asked Imnak of Karjuk, indicating Poalu, and Thimble and Thistle.	10
24	92	"Let us not bring the girls with us," I suggested to Imnak.	10
24	93	"No," said Imnak.	10
24	241	Soon again she squirmed in silence, taken, in the furs in the hut of Imnak.	10
25	3	"Shove!" called Imnak.	10
25	4	Imnak and I, and the girls, tipped the sled over a slope of pack ice, it tilting and then sliding downward.	10
25	5	"Wait!" called Imnak to Karjuk.	10
25	9	The second sled was Imnak's, and the third was Ram's, brought with him from the south, which the men of the permanent camp had drawn to the camp for him.	10
25	10	Imnak's sled was drawn by a snow sleen borrowed from his friend, Akko, and Ram's sled was drawn by another snow sleen, replacing the one the Kur had slain outside the camp.	10
25	16	"No, wait!" called Imnak.	10
25	29	Imnak pointed upward, back toward the south.	10
25	32	"Let us make camp here," called Imnak to Karjuk.	10
25	36	"There is going to be a storm," said Imnak.	10
25	39	"I must check the runners on my sled," called Imnak.	10
25	53	Imnak relieved himself, icing the runners.	10
25	59	"A storm is coming," said Imnak, pointing to the southern sky.	10
25	62	"Very well," said Imnak.	10
25	63	"Is it wise to continue on now?" asked Ram of Imnak.	10
25	64	"No," said Imnak.	10
25	66	"Tie the slaves to the sled," said Imnak.	10
25	80	Meanwhile Imnak had similarly secured Barbara and Poalu to the left-hand, rear upright on the sled.	10
25	87	"On!" called Imnak, taking his place behind his sled, and cracking the long-bladed sleen whip over the snow sleen, Akko's beast, which was in his traces.	10
25	90	Imnak did not now ride the runners of the sled, but ran between them.	10
25	95	From time to time, then standing on the runners, Imnak would turn to regard the jagged terrain behind him.	10
25	124	I was very pleased to be in the company of Imnak.	10
25	129	This was not only to consider the terrain as it might appear on a return journey, something I had learned from Imnak, but for another reason as well, one held in common by warriors and red hunters.	10
25	131	I fell back a bit, jogging beside Imnak.	10
25	135	"How could he not know?" asked Imnak.	10
25	137	"Let us continue to press on," said Imnak.	10
25	141	"Did you see the head of the ice beast which he brought to camp?" asked Imnak.	10
25	146	"Yes," said Imnak.	10
26	1	Imnak Makes a Camp; Poalu Boils Meat The wind howled about us, and I could hardly keep my footing.	10
26	2	"We must stop!" I called to Imnak, over the storm.	10
26	15	Imnak had had us tether them thusly, that they might not be swept away from us and lost in the storm.	10
26	16	"We cannot see where we are going!" I cried out to Imnak.	10
26	18	I sensed Imnak turning about, and then again he was at the tabuk-horn uprights at the sled, glimpsed momentarily in a break in the clouds.	10