"Whitie was on the island eating a seal pup, when I saw him," he said.
"You must not get so excited about him. Just think about the doctor and your eyes being made well."
Eiseeyou hastened with Oumauk to the cabin where he put him in his bunk and told him that night was coming on and he must rest.
After the Eskimo boy had eaten a supper of the white man's food, he asked his father to take him out upon the deck; but Eiseeyou refused, fearing that he would hear the great bear who was still moaning and sighing in his cage at one end of the ship.
The following morning Mr. Adams informed Eiseeyou that the White Czar refused all food, and that he was afraid he would die.
"In that case," continued Mr. Adams, "we will not get the large sum of money that we had expected for him alive, so we could not pay you so much."
At these words Eiseeyou's heart sank. Perhaps there would not be money enough for them to see the doctor after all. Maybe
