“There was another man left here,” said the Greenlander. “She says … not alive, not dead. Sleeping — Sorry, Captain, their dialect is different than I’m used to. She says he’s… with Anguta.”

“Which is what? A person?” asked Ross.

Minik looked troubled, and spent several minutes in dialogue while the sailors waited impatiently. Finally he said, “I think a person, aye. Anguta is their god, who takes the spirit down to Adlivun, where the dead go. So at first I thought maybe she was just saying he was dead, like a poetic expression, you know? But now I think she means a real person, angakkuq, a holy man. They brought him to be healed.”

“And where do we find this holy man?”

“In a cave, an ice cave north on the coast. She says her husband can take us there, but Anguta won’t speak to us unless we bring him a shark for an offering.”

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