Boas.] ^y [March], 



Iranslation. 



The wife of Wa'walis and lier child were staying in tlie house. She 

 desired to have seal flippers to eat. One of Wa'walis' men was her lover. 

 Wa'walis went hunting and his young slave steered his canoe. He went 

 to shoot many seals. He shot a young seal, which he cut up and boiled 

 and covered with a mat. When it was dark he landed near his liouse. 

 He pushed his canoe into the water. He wanted to watch his wife and 

 her lover. At midnight he arrived at the beach in front of the town. He 

 pointed his baton towards the town. Then the people fell asleep. 

 Wa'walis' man slept with her in the house of her father. Wa'walis went to 

 the head part of her bed and scratched at the wall. His wife said : "I wish 

 (that mouse) would gnaw Wa'walis' stomach.'' Wa'walis grew angry. 

 He stretched out his baton and the woman fell asleep. She slept with 

 her lover. Then Wa'walis came and entered the house. He cut off the 

 bead of the man. Then he went out of the house and took the head of 

 the man along. He went far away and put the head into a basket. He 

 covered it with seal meat. 



Wa'walis' child cried. The bed of the child was full of the blood of the 

 beheaded lover of Wa'walis' wife. She washed the child and the bed and 

 the child went to sleep again. Then she wrapped up her lover and car- 

 ried him out of her bed and out of the house. She covered him. 



(On the next morning) the mother of the young man arose (and told) 

 his younger brothers to wake him. (They called him, but he did not 

 stir.) "Why don't you uncover him?" The oldest one went and un- 

 covered him. He cried: " O, my dear, he has no head !" The youth 

 cried and the people assembled. "Oh, Wa'walis' man has no head." 

 Now all the people of the town had assembled. Then Wa'walis came 

 paddling. (They cried :) "Put your paddles down, Wa'walis ! One of 

 your men was (found) without head when the sun rose this morning." 

 Wa'walis arrived, carrying the basket, in which he brought food for his 

 wife. "Come! take the basket and feed our people" (he said). She 

 took the basket: "Is it this (what you want to give me?" she asked). 

 "No, what you like to have is below." Then she saw the head of her 

 lover. "Why do you cry on seeing this?" Wa'walis took his child. 

 He took his copper and his baton and went into his canoe. The people of 

 the town pursued him. They wanted to kill him. They came nearer. 

 When they were near him he pointed his baton at them and his pursuers 

 were dead. He paddled on the fjord towards the sea. They did not reach 

 Wa'walis. 



(Soon) Wa'walis discovered a town. Smoke was rising from one of the 

 houses only. Nobody was to be seen. He saw a man. Wa'walis 

 wished to marry the daughter of this old, blind man. He took the boiled 

 dried salmon of the old man. The latter could not find his salmon and 

 said to his daughter: "Look back, my dear, somebody must be in the 

 town and is playing with my food." He alwaj's said so, and she replied : 

 "Stop ! do not talk, my dear I" But then she looked back towards the 



