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...onto the ground. Old man Vasily fell top of us, as if someone had tossed him up in the air. There was noise all around, someone was making noise and banging on the ellyun [the reindeer hide covering of the chum]. Suddenly it became very light, a bright sun was shining on us and a strong wind was blowing. Then someone fired a mighty shot, as if ice was exploding the way it does in the winter on the Katanga, and a dancing Uchir [tornado] immediately swooped down and grabbed the ellyun, started to twist it and spin it and then carried it off somewhere. There was nothing left but the dyukcha [frame of the chum]. I was scared out of my wits and started to go bucho [lose consciousness]; I saw the Uchir dancing. I cried out and immediately came back to life. The Uchir dumped the entire dyukcha on me and banged up my leg with one of the poles. I crawled out from under the poles and started to cry: the chest with the dishware had been thrown out of the tent and it was lying...
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