Makivik Magazine Issue 72
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Maatiusi Amarualik shows a few children in Puvingnituq what is under the hood of this high-powered modern snowmobile.<br />
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I used to go hunting with it, as I had no choice but to and wanted<br />
to, and it was the main reason for buying the snowmobile. And<br />
then the Hudson's Bay Store received a shipment of a few small<br />
snowmobiles, which seemed hard for them to sell. Gradually people<br />
started buying them and other people started to envy these<br />
people. More snowmobiles started to arrive and most of the men<br />
would buy one for themselves. Then they didn't last long at the<br />
HBC store.<br />
MM: Did you pull a sled when you went hunting?<br />
Maatiusi: No, I did not pull a sled at first as I was still keeping<br />
a dogteam. Then I started to pull a sled with a rope without<br />
ever thinking of putting a box on it. I was merely lashing my load<br />
on the sled and never even thought of having runners on them; the<br />
white plastic ones we use today or the steel strap ones for that<br />
matter. At that time we used moss as runners and we would stop<br />
using the dogteam at springtime when the frozen moss runners<br />
started to melt. We couldn't afford steel runners so we ended up<br />
without runners during the springtime. Nowadays they use plastics<br />
as runners, which we never even thought of back then.<br />
MM: Did it seem colder when you first started to go out hunting<br />
with your snowmobile?<br />
Maatiusi: No, it was not; I was happier because when I started<br />
to drive, the machine was responding to my thoughts whereas<br />
when I was using the dogteam they didn’t always go where I wanted<br />
to and this machine was responding beautifully to my commands<br />
and that was very exciting.<br />
It used to get so cold that the gas would not even reach the<br />
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