s-
hide drums, his incantation tools--everything. And in the end he became
a hewer of wood and drawer of water at the beck and call of Moosu. And
Moosu--he set himself up as shaman, or high priest, and out of his
garbled Scripture created new gods and made incantation before strange
altars.

"And I was well pleased, for I thought it good that church and state go
hand in hand, and I had certain plans of my own concerning the state.
Events were shaping as I had foreseen. Good temper and smiling faces had
vanished from the village. The people were morose and sullen. There
were quarrels and fighting, and things were in an uproar night and day.
Moosu's cards were duplicated and the hunters fell to gambling among
themselves. Tummasook beat his wife horribly, and his mother's brother
objected and smote him with a tusk of walrus till he cried aloud in the
night and was shamed before the people. Also, amid such diversions no
hunting was done, and famine fell upon the land. The nights were long
and dark, and without meat no _hooch_ could be bought; so they murmured
against the chief. This I had played for, and when they were well and
hungry, I summoned the whole village, made a great harangue, posed as
patriarch, and fed the famishing. Moosu made harangue likewise, and
because of this and the thing I had done I was made chief. Moosu, who
had the ear of God and decreed his judgments, anointed me with whale
blubber, and right blubberly he did it, not understanding the ceremony.
And between us we interpreted to the people the new theory of the divine
right of kings. There was _hooch_ galore, and meat and feastings, and
they took kindly to the new order.

"So you see, O man, I have sat in the high places, and worn the purple,
and ruled populations. And I might yet be a king had the tobacco held
out, or had Moosu been more fool and less knave. For he cast eyes upon
Esanetuk, eldest daughter to Tummasook, and I objected.

"'O brother,' he explained, 'thou hast seen fit to speak of introducing
new institutions amongst this people, and I have listened to thy words
and gained wisdom thereby. Thou rulest by the God-given right, and by
the God-given right I marry.'

"I noted that he 'brothered' me, and was angry and put my foot down. But
he fell back upon the people and made incantations for three days, in
which all hands joined; and then, speaking with the voice of God, he
decreed polygamy by divine fiat. But he was sh