Crossword-Solution: HUKS 4 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

They work hard; they are strong and brave, and have powerful wills." As these were facts which every one admitted, and Rooney uttered them with considerable emphasis and animation; the statement of them was received with nods, and huks, and other marks of approval.

The uncording of the latter intensified the expectation of the Eskimo to boiling point, and when the brown paper was removed, and a roll of something with a strange, not to say bad, smell was displayed, they boiled over in a series of exclamations to which the former "huks" and "hos" were mere child's play.

Numerous and characteristic were the sighs, "huks," grunts, growls, and other exclamations; all of which were in keeping with the more or less intense glaring of eyes, and opening of mouths, and slight bending of knees and elbows, and spreading of fingers, and raising of hands, as the operators slowly unrolled the india-rubber mass, attached the bellows, gradually inflated the first boat, fixed the thwarts and stretchers, and, as it were, constructed a perfect oomiak in little more than ten minutes.

They'd even handled the Huks in time gone by--which in still earlier times would have been called a space war and put down in all the history books.

The Huks had a good technology, they had spaceships, and they were just beginning to expand, themselves, from their own home planet or planets.