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Morten P. Porsild. 



A hunter who practises this mode of hunting is called savssartoq^ 

 from savssarpoq, 315, he practises savssarneq. 



2. An old and now abandoned method of hunting seals in openings 

 in the ice and in "current-holes" consisted in the one hunter trying 

 from the edge of the opening to attract the attention of the seal by 

 scratching on the ice, whistling, etc., while the other, in a kayak, stole 

 upon it from behind and harpooned it (Fig. 8). 



3. Qamaneq, 129. Stalking at the edge of the ice. (Fig. 9). 

 The hunter hides himself at the edge of the ice among the hummocks or 

 behind a cover of piled-up ice floes, and waits there till the seal appears, 

 when he shoots it and carries it off in a kayak. This method gives 

 good results where Phoca barbota is concerned. 



Fig. 10. A sinâliarneq. From a drawing by G. Kleist. 



He is lying in wait for seals is called qamavoq, 128, the hunter 

 thus hiding qamassoq. 



Exactly the same names are used in other districts of the country 

 for hunting Phoca groenlandica, but that takes place in open water. 

 In places where the saddleback seal usually lives, a cover of stone and 

 peat is made at the coast, often upon a projecting rocky point, from 

 which the sea opposite and the bays on either side can be fired upon. 

 A locality suitable for this mode of hunting is called qamaçik, 128, and 

 the latter is a common place-name on the west coast. 



4. Sinâliarneq. Hunting at the ice edge (Fig. 10) is the method, 

 next to net-hunting on ice, which gives the greatest returns in the northern 

 part of Danish Greenland. Conditions suitable for this kind of hunting 



