[Journal], 1915-1916
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Ahy-go-di-blo-ah-sok but my wounded him He told them that they would have to hit his heart to kill him, but woe to him who did it. They fired again and he dropped, but within a year (?) the man whose shot was fatal mortal to him was killed by an accidental shot through the heart and two of his near relatives were killed by one by an accidental knife thrust and me by a similar harpoon wound through the heart. The Eskimos there- fore consider the antagonist to have been very powerful as a magician. As we rounded the extremity of Cape York Peter said to me "Only an hour more", but this was a joke, for within ten minutes we had reached the settlement and I was in Ahogadoblah's igloo about eight o'clock. Nine hours of driving at a rapid rate and one hour rest en route. Fifty miles is