498 THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT [ETH.ANN.IS 



The man and his wife followed no farther, but went home. Doll 

 had traveled on along the bright path until he came to the edge of 

 day, where the sky comes down to the earth and walls in the light. 

 Close to where he was, in the east, he saw a gut-skin cover fastened 

 over the hole in the sky Avail, which was bulging inward apparently 

 owing to some, strong force on the other side. The doll stopped and 

 said, &quot; It is very quiet in here. I think a little wind will make it better.&quot; 

 So he drew his knife and cut the cover loose about the edge of the hole, 

 and a strong wind blew through, every now and then bringing with it 

 a live reindeer. Looking through the hole, Doll saw beyond the wall 

 another world like the earth. He drew the cover over the hole again 

 and bade the wind not to blow too hard, but he said &quot;Sometimes blow 

 hard, sometimes light, and sometimes do not blow at all.&quot; 



Then he walked along the sky wall until he came to another opening 

 at the southeast, which was covered, and the covering pressed inward 

 like the first. When he cut this cover loose the force of the gale swept 

 in, bringing reindeer, trees, and bushes. Closing the hole again, he 

 bade it do as he had told the first one, and passed on. In a short time 

 he came to a hole in the south, and when the cover was cut a hot wind 

 came rushing in, accompanied by rain and the spray from the great sea 

 lying beyond the sky hole on that side. 



Doll closed this opening and instructed it as before, and passed on 

 to the west. There he saw another opening, and as soon as the cover 

 was cut the wind brought in a heavy rainstorm, with sleet and spray, 

 from the ocean. This opening was also closed, with the same instruc 

 tions, and he passed on to the northwest, where he found another open 

 ing. When the cover to this was cut away a blast of cold wind came 

 rushing in, bringing in snow and ice, so that he was chilled to the bone 

 and half frozen, and he hastened to close it, as he had the others. 



Again he went along the sky wall to the north, the cold becoming so 

 great that he was obliged to leave it and make a circuit, going back to 

 it where he saw the opening. There the cold was so intense that he 

 hesitated for some time, but finally cut the cover away. At once a 

 fearful blast rushed in, carrying great masses of snow and ice, strewing 

 it all over the earth plain. He closed the hole very quickly, and hav 

 ing admonished it as usual, traveled on until he came to the middle of 

 the earth plain. 



When he reached there he looked up and saw the sky arching over 

 head, supported by long, slender poles, arranged like those of a conical 

 lodge, but made of some beautiful material unknown to him. Turning 

 again, he traveled far away, until he reached the village whence he had 

 started. There he circled once completely around the place, and then 

 entered one after the other of the houses, going to his own home last 

 of all. This he did that the people should become his friends, and care 

 for him in case his parents should die. 



After this Doll lived in the village for a very long time. When his 



