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While she was there, two Adlit came up and asked her what was 

 the matter. She told them, and they offered to take her to their 

 home. She went with them, and married one of the Adlit. 

 Later this Adlit met her former husband when out hunting. 

 He told him who he was but would not take him to his former 

 wife. 



Once the people were travelling and came across a camp of 

 Adlit. They could not understand each other, until someone 

 cried, "Call the Eskimo woman." Then a woman came out and 

 acted as interpreter. It was the girl who had run away. She 

 would not go back to her husband, so they left her. She lived 

 with the Adlit until she died. 



ORIGIN OF MAN AND THE ANIMALS. 



In the north lives Torngarsoak, the great Torngak; he made 

 man from nothing. The man travelled a long way, and found a 

 woman. They married, and from them sprang all the Eskimo. 



One day Torngarsoak set some puppies adrift in a pair of old 

 boots. The puppies drifted off in different directions. Finally 

 one returned bringing with it the Indians; very much later the 

 other puppy returned as a man, bringing people with white 

 skins in a big umiak. They were the white people. The man 

 then turned back into a dog. 



There was a woman who married the dog. Her father was 

 ashamed of her and took her in his umiak to a lonely island. 

 When out to sea he threw her overboard. She seized hold of the 

 side of the boat, but he cut off her fingers with his knife. The 

 thumb became the walrus, the first finger the seal, and the middle 

 finger the white bear. 



"The woman sank, and now lives at the bottom of the sea. 

 Another version : 



One day an Eskimo was chopping down a tree. He noticed 

 that the chips that fell into the water became water animals 

 and the chips that fell on the land became land animals. That 

 is how the animals were created. 



Before this time the earth had been covered with water. 

 Finally the water went away, and the dry land appeared. The 

 seaweed and kelp became the grass and trees. 



