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(Under present conditions, it is sometimes difficult to tell whether 

 an Eskimo means by "Torngak" an individual helper, or "the 

 great Torngak," Torngarsoak, who was a deity among them, 

 as the missionaries and Eskimo at the stations used the term 

 interchangeably.) 



Two stories were collected of the Adlit "strangers" (allat, 

 South Labrador). I am not sure whether these stories refer 

 to the Indians or the Tunnit.^ The story of "The Girl who lost 

 her Arms" is referred by the Labrador Eskimo to the Tunnit. 



Local stories are illustrated in "The Thinking Image and 

 Adlasuq and the Giant." "The Story of the Orphan Boy and 

 the Moon Man" has been localized in Labrador, as elsewhere. 



Considerable information regarding the Tunnit was gathered 

 on this trip. It is placed in the mythological section for con- 

 venience in comparing with the traditions gathered by other 

 writers. The author is of the opinion that the Tunnit are entitled 

 to an historical position in northern Labrador. 



THE MIGRATION LEGEND. 



The Baffin Island Eskimo have a legend that the present 

 tribes living on the northern and southern shores formerly 

 lived together near Ussualung in Cumberland sound.^ For 

 some reason they quarrelled and separated, the Iglumiut (Labra- 

 dor Eskimo) going to the south. The Sikosuilarmiut (Eskimo 

 of southwest Baffin island) have intercourse with the Igolumiut 

 of Cape Wolstenholme, crossing Hudson strait by Tudjaraaqd- 

 jung (Mill island), Akugdlirn (Salisbury island), and Tudja- 

 quaralung (Nottingham island).^ The crossing is dangerous 

 and not often attempted. 



At Cape Chidley, the Labrador Eskimo have a legend that 

 their ancestors once crossed the strait by way of the Button 

 islands and Resolution island to Baffin island, and found a strange 

 people there whose words they could not understand. They 

 call the Button islands, which stretch north from Killinek, 



»The term adlit "strangers." is applied by the present Labrador Eskimo to the Indians 

 of the interior, but generically may refer to any other people than themselves. 

 ' See Boas. The Central Eskimo. 6th Annual Report B.A.E., p. 618. 

 > See Boas, ibid., pp. 462, 463. 



