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man stepped out of the kayak on to the ice. Then she noticed that he 

 was quite a small man, and that he appeared large only because he had 

 been sitting on a high seat. Then she began to cry, while he laughed 

 and said, 'Oh, you have seen my seat, have you?' [According to an- 

 other version, he wore snow-goggles made of walrus-ivory, and he said, 

 T)o you see my snow-goggles?' and then laughed at her because she be- 

 gan to cry.] Then he went back into his kayak, and they proceeded on 

 their journey. 



"Finally they came to a place where there were many people and 

 many huts. He pointed out to her a certain hut made of the skins of 

 yearling seals, and told her that it was his, and that she was to go there. 

 They landed. The woman went up to the hut, while he attended to his 

 kayak. Soon he joined her in the hut, and staid with her for three or 

 four days before going out sealing again. Her new husband was a 

 petrel. 



"Meanwhile her father had left the dog, her former husband, at 

 his house, and had gone to look for her on the island. When he did 

 not find her, he returned home, and told the dog to wait for him, as he 

 was going in search of his daughter. He set out in a large boat, trav- 

 eled about for a long time, and visited many a place before he suc- 

 ceeded in finding her. Finally he came to the place where she lived. 

 He saw many huts, and, without leaving his boat, he shouted and 

 called his daughter to return home with him. She came down from 

 her hut, and went aboard her father's boat, where he hid her among 

 some skins. 



"They had not been gone long when they saw a man in a kayak- 

 following them. It was her new husband. Soon he overtook them, 

 and when he came alongside he asked the young woman to show her 

 hand, as he was very anxious to see at least part of her body, but she 

 did not move. Then he asked her to show her mitten, but she did not 

 respond to his request. In vain he tried in many ways to induce her to 

 show herself; she kept in hiding. Then he began to cry, resting his 

 head on his arms, that were crossed in front of the manhole of the 

 kayak. Avilayuk's father paddled on as fast as he could, and the man 

 fell far behind. It was calm at that time and they continued on their 

 way home. After some time they saw something coming from be- 

 hind toward their boat. They could not clearly discern it. Some- 

 times it looked like a man in a kayak. Sometimes it looked like a 

 petrel. It flew up and down, then skimmed over the water, and 

 finally came up to their boat and went round and round it several times 

 and then disappeared again. Suddenly ripples came up, the waters be- 

 gan to rise, and after a short time a gale was raging. The boat was 

 quite a distance away from shore. The old man became afraid lest they 

 might be drowned; and, fearing the revenge of his daughter's husband. 



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