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The first night out, after they had erected a snow-house, they 

 told him that it was the custom for every young hunter to be 

 bound the first evening on the hunt. So he allowed himself to 

 be bound, having promised to obey all their customs. They 

 tied his hands and feet with heavy lashing, nu'pu-lwt, from their 

 komatiks. They did not dare trust ordinary line (cv'tlaunaq). 



When he was sound asleep, in the middle of the night, they 

 set on him and killed him with their lances; but bound as he was, 

 he managed to break the heavy line, and kill one of them before 

 he was finally killed. 



When the hunters returned home without him, his wife 

 asked where he was, but the hunters would not tell her. Finally 

 she understood. She went out and got his body and buried it. 

 The grave can still be seen on the north side of Saglek bay. 



Another version, which gives the additional detail that the 

 hunters cut through the side of the snow-house to get at the 

 giant, is as follows: 



Once on a time there lived a giant near Hebron, who was 

 so heavy that he could not walk on new ice.^ He was the tyrant 

 of the village. Whatever he wanted he took, and no one dared 

 dispute him. 



One year he expressed a wish that he would like to see how 

 seals were killed and how the men went hunting. (He never 

 hunted himself but stole from others). The hunters thought it 

 a fine chance to get him in their power. They wanted to get 

 rid of him because they were afraid of him and he was always 

 bullying them. So they told him that if he wanted to go seal 

 hunting with them, he would have to do exactly as they told 

 him. He promised that he would, and they let him go with 

 them. 



So the first night they were out on the ice, they built a snow- 

 house, and told him that it was their custom to be lashed with 

 skin line and left alone in the snow-house all night. So he let 

 them tie him up, and lay down to sleep. 



Now the other Eskimo outside waited until they thought 

 he was sound asleep. Then they cut a big hole in the side of the 



» Cf. Boas, Eskimo of Baffin land and Hudson bay, p. 292, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. XV. 



