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becoming suspicious and disappearing in its hole, this method has now, 

 since the introduction of rifles, been entirely abandoned, and is replaced 

 by utorniarneq, described below. 



Figured by Egede (1. с); moreover, an excellent illustration by 

 Lyon is to be found in Paeky, p. 173. 



The hunter is called aortoq or aorniartoq, one who goes out on this 

 hunting expedition, from aorpog, 37. 



6. Utorniarneq. Otok-hunting (from utoq, 406, designation for a 

 seal that has come up upon the ice in spring). (Fig. 7). 



The hunter has his rifle lashed securely to the pushing sledge with 

 its screen adapted to the use of the rifle. (Description is given below on 



Fig. 7. A tâlutartoq. Otok hunter with shooting screen creeping on the ice. 



pp. 179 sqq). He approaches as near as possible to the seal, makes fre- 

 quent halts, and observes it with a telescope. Finally he lies down, 

 pushes the sledge before him until he is within convenient distance of 

 the seal and then shoots, using the pushing sledge as a rest for the gun. 

 This mode of hunting — in which the harpoon is no longer used — gives 

 good results and is used everywhere in the northern part of West Green- 

 land. 



B. Qâgtarneq (from qagtarpoq, 125) or napitorneq 



(from napitorpoq, Supplement, 32, he catches seals with a net 



under the surface of the ice). 



Net-hunting on ice. The harpoon is not used in this mode of 

 hunting either; it is mentioned here for the sake of completeness, 

 and because it is at present by far the most lucrative of all the methods 



